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CONFESSION #0312 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Saturday, January 17, 2026
I hosted an open house last Saturday and a guy walked in, immediately asked if he could use the bathroom, and then stayed in there for forty-five minutes. Forty-five. I had other visitors asking me if someone was sick in there. I didn't know what to say. When he finally emerged, he didn't even look at the house. Just said "nice place" and left. Didn't take a flyer. Didn't sign in. Nothing. But that wasn't even the worst part. Twenty minutes later, a woman showed up with her three kids and a bag of Cheetos. The orange fingerprints on the white kitchen cabinets will haunt me forever. Then a couple got into an actual argument in the primary bedroom about whose mother would be visiting more often if they bought the place. She threw a decorative pillow at him. I just stood there holding my sign-in sheet like a hostage. My seller texted me afterward asking how it went and I typed "great interest, lots of traffic!" while pouring my third glass of wine. This job is absolutely unhinged.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL OPTIMISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND FRAUDULENT CHEERFULNESS UNDER DURESS
This Court has presided over many travesties but FORTY-FIVE MINUTES in a stranger's bathroom during an open house is not a showing, it is a SIEGE. The defendant stood there, clipboard in hand, while a man conducted what can only be described as a hostile takeover of the powder room, while feral children committed Cheeto-based vandalism against innocent cabinetry, while grown adults weaponized throw pillows over hypothetical mother-in-law visitation schedules. And yet—AND YET—the defendant had the AUDACITY to text "great interest, lots of traffic" as if this hellscape qualified as professional success. Judge Escrow must take a moment. The Court finds that the only honest traffic here was the defendant's desperate path to the wine bottle, which this Court reluctantly rules as justified under the Emergency Emotional Survival Doctrine of 2024. You are sentenced to one year of hosting only virtual tours where you can mute everyone and pretend this career makes sense.
Cheeto-Stained Desperation
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