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CONFESSION #0383 — THE BUYER WHO NEVER BOUGHT
Saturday, March 21, 2026
Showed this guy houses for eleven months. Eleven. Every Saturday, rain or shine, I'm picking him up because his car is "in the shop" (it was in the shop for eleven months, sure). We saw 47 homes. I counted. He had opinions about everything — the outlets were the wrong color, the backyard faced the wrong direction, the garage was "too garage-y," whatever that means. Finally, finally, he finds the one. Perfect ranch, move-in ready, priced $15k under market. He's ready. I'm ready. I draft the offer at 10pm on a Thursday, we're going in strong, and then Friday morning he texts me: "Actually my buddy from college is a realtor in Phoenix and I think I'm just gonna move there instead. Thanks for everything tho!" Eleven months. Forty-seven houses. One "tho." I don't even know what I did with the rest of that Friday. I think I just sat in my car in a Wendy's parking lot for a while.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CLIENT ABANDONMENT WITH MALICE AFORETHOUGHT AND CRIMINAL MISUSE OF THE WORD "THO"
The Court has reviewed this confession and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because this one hit PERSONALLY. Eleven months of Saturdays — SATURDAYS, the sacred day when normal humans consume breakfast sandwiches and avoid productivity — surrendered to a man whose car was perpetually "in the shop" which The Court recognizes as code for "I have a suspended license and a lot of audacity." Forty-seven homes rejected because a garage was "too garage-y" — what did he WANT, a garage that identified as a solarium? And then, THEN, after you draft an offer at 10pm like the devoted professional you are, this CREATURE sends a text containing "tho" as if that single abbreviation could compress eleven months of your life into something casual and dismissible. The Court once waited fourteen months for a custom gavel from an Etsy vendor who ghosted me for a Renaissance faire in Tucson, so I UNDERSTAND the Wendy's parking lot moment — sometimes you just need to sit with your Frosty and your shattered sense of purpose. This confession reveals no wrongdoing on your part; the true criminal is the college buddy in Phoenix who is hereby sentenced in absentia to a lifetime of showing homes with popcorn ceilings to people who "just want to see what's out there." Case CLOSED, The Court must now go call his therapist.
VICTIM OF THO
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