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CONFESSION #0333 — OTHER
Saturday, February 7, 2026
I spent forty-five minutes on the phone yesterday with a guy who found my number on a listing sign and wanted to tell me everything wrong with the house. Not because he wanted to buy it. Not because he knew the sellers. He just felt strongly that the landscaping was "an affront to the neighborhood" and wanted me to relay his concerns. He described each offending shrub in detail. When I finally said I had to go, he asked if I could recommend a good restaurant nearby because he was visiting from Ohio. I gave him a suggestion just to end the call. This morning he called back to tell me the restaurant was mediocre and the shrub situation was still bothering him. I'm a licensed professional who studied for months to pass my exam and I'm now emotionally invested in whether a stranger from Columbus enjoyed his chicken parmesan. My therapist is going to have a field day with this one. I've started just not answering numbers I don't recognize but then I miss actual clients. There's no winning.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY BOTANICAL HOSTAGE NEGOTIATION
This Court has witnessed many crimes against professional dignity, but FORTY-FIVE MINUTES listening to a man from Ohio describe shrubbery he has no legal standing to critique represents a new frontier in self-abandonment. The confession reveals a classic case of what this Court calls "Therapist Employment Insurance" wherein the agent ensures their mental health professional never lacks material. Let the record show that the defendant not only endured the initial horticultural lecture but ALSO provided restaurant recommendations to their captor, thereby establishing themselves as a full-service concierge for the emotionally unmoored. Judge Escrow finds it particularly damning that when this botanical terrorist called BACK to complain about chicken parmesan, the defendant answered. The phone has a button. It is red. It ends calls. This Court suspects the defendant has never located it. Judge Escrow must adjourn immediately as he has received word that his own landscaper has made "creative choices" and frankly this confession has triggered something.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.7/10 Shrub Hostage Syndrome

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