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CONFESSION #0303 — SELLER MELTDOWN
Thursday, January 8, 2026
My seller called me seventeen times the day before closing. Seventeen. I know because I counted while questioning every life choice that led me to this career. First call at 6 AM because she noticed a "scratch" on the hardwood in the listing photos and was convinced the buyers would back out. It was a shadow. Second call because she wanted to know if she should leave the batteries in the smoke detectors. Third call to ask if the buyers seemed "nice enough to deserve the house." By call eleven, she was sobbing because she suddenly remembered her kids took their first steps in the living room and maybe she was making a terrible mistake. By call fourteen, she was fine again and asking if she could take the mailbox because her late husband installed it. By call seventeen, she wanted to know if I thought the buyers would let her visit sometimes. The deal closed. She left them a four-page handwritten letter about the house's "energy" and a detailed map of where she buried her cat in the backyard in 2019. I need a vacation. Or a new career. Possibly both.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF EMOTIONAL HOSTAGE-TAKING IN THE FIRST DEGREE WITH SEVENTEEN COUNTS OF TELEPHONIC TERRORISM
This court has presided over many harrowing cases but SEVENTEEN CALLS before closing represents a level of psychological warfare that would make seasoned interrogators weep with envy. The defendant agent stood in the breach between chaos and commerce, fielding inquiries about SHADOWS, SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES, and whether strangers deserved homeownership based on vibes. Judge Escrow himself once received four calls from a client about whether mercury was in retrograde during their inspection period and required a three-day judicial recess. But this seller escalated to providing a CAT BURIAL MAP which transforms a simple transaction into an archaeological dig site of emotional baggage. The agent's sin is not endurance but enabling—you answered call seventeen when any reasonable professional would have faked their own death by call nine. This court sentences you to one vacation immediately, funded entirely by your next commission, and formally advises the buyers to salt that backyard earth before the seller returns for visitation rights with her former breakfast nook.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 The Seventeen Sorrows

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