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CONFESSION #0318 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Friday, January 23, 2026
I hosted an open house last Sunday and within the first twenty minutes, a woman let her three kids use the master bedroom as a wrestling ring while she spent forty-five minutes grilling me about the neighbors' political affiliations. Then a guy showed up with a measuring tape and started measuring every room while mumbling about whether his "aquarium collection" would fit. We're talking like twelve tanks apparently. Meanwhile, another couple got into a screaming argument in the kitchen about whether granite countertops were "too nineties" and one of them stormed out crying. A retired gentleman spent two hours just sitting on the patio "getting a feel for the energy" and asking if the house had ever "witnessed tragedy." I smiled through all of it. Offered cookies. Made small talk. At the end of the day I had fourteen sign-ins and exactly zero actual prospects. Just people looking for free entertainment on a Sunday afternoon. But sure, my seller wants to know why we haven't gotten any offers yet. I'm considering a career change to literally anything else.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL PATIENCE IN THE FACE OF DOMESTIC CIRCUS OPERATIONS
This Court has witnessed many horrors from this bench, but the image of three feral children executing wrestling maneuvers upon a stranger's master bedroom while their mother conducts a political inquisition has LEFT ME PHYSICALLY ILL. The aquarium collector measuring rooms for his TWELVE TANKS deserves his own tribunal, and the granite countertop divorce currently unfolding in some family court is entirely this open house's fault. But YOU, Agent, you stood there. You offered COOKIES. You made SMALL TALK with a man who asked if the house had witnessed tragedy while he himself WAS the tragedy, occupying a patio for two hours like some sort of energy-sensing barnacle. Judge Escrow finds you guilty not of misconduct but of EXCESSIVE PROFESSIONAL DIGNITY in circumstances that warranted fleeing through a window. Your seller wants to know why there are no offers? Tell them the house was briefly converted into a free Sunday activity center for people who belong on watchlists. This Court needs to lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Sunday Funday Felony

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