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CONFESSION #0452 — SOCIAL MEDIA BACKFIRE
Wednesday, April 15, 2026
The seller changed her mind. Not about the price, not about the terms, about whether she wanted to sell at all. Which happens, except she'd already accepted an offer and we were three days from closing. I called her maybe 12 times that weekend. Finally got her on Sunday night and she said she'd been reading comments on her neighborhood Facebook group. Someone posted that the buyers were going to tear down her house and build a duplex. Total strangers decided this. No evidence. Just speculation that got 200 comments.
The buyers were a young couple who wanted to paint the kitchen yellow. That was their big renovation plan. Yellow paint.
She pulled out. Lost the buyers. They sued for the earnest money. The whole thing cost her about eight thousand dollars because someone named Linda had a theory.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF FACEBOOK JURISPRUDENCE AND FAILURE TO PROTECT A CLIENT FROM THE LINDA MENACE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself TREMBLING WITH RECOGNITION, for Reginald too has been victimized by the Lindas of this world — neighborhood busybodies who treat speculation as gospel and the comment section as their personal courtroom. You made TWELVE CALLS, which frankly shows more patience than this Court has ever demonstrated toward anyone, including my own sister who once suggested I was not a real judge at a family barbecue. The tragedy here is GEOMETRIC in nature: a young couple wanted YELLOW PAINT, agent, YELLOW PAINT, which is the most innocent of renovation intentions, and yet some digital vigilante with a profile picture of her labradoodle convinced your seller that demolition crews were incoming. Per the landmark decision in HOA Busybody v. Everyone's Happiness (2019), the Court recognizes that Facebook neighborhood groups are where reason goes to be murdered by people who peaked in middle school hall monitoring. You should have isolated your seller from the internet entirely, perhaps through strategic Wi-Fi sabotage, because eight thousand dollars is now GONE and Linda faces NO CONSEQUENCES, which is how it always works with the Lindas. The Court is docking points only because you failed to preemptively warn your client that the comment section is a war zone and the enemy has unlimited free time. Reginald must now go lie down because this has triggered something.
Death By Linda
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