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CONFESSION #0459 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Saturday, April 18, 2026
Closing was at 2pm. The buyers wanted one final walkthrough at noon which is normal, totally standard, except the sellers hadn't moved out yet (they were supposed to be gone by 10) and when we pull up there's a moving truck in the driveway and the husband is standing in the front yard having what I can only describe as a breakdown about a hot tub. Not the hot tub on the deck, a different hot tub, one that was apparently in the garage, which nobody knew about, and he's saying he can't leave it because his father built the frame for it in 1986 and his father is dead now and the buyers are looking at me like I'm supposed to solve grief in the next two hours. The wife finally got him in the truck around 1:15 but they took the garage door opener and left a bag of frozen shrimp in the freezer that had clearly been there for years and the buyers wanted a $500 credit for cleaning and honestly I gave it to them out of my own commission just to make everyone stop talking.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT EMOTIONAL HOT TUB HARBORING AND ACCESSORY TO FROZEN SHRIMP ABANDONMENT
The Court has witnessed many things in its distinguished career, but NEVER has Reginald been so moved and yet so DISGUSTED by the specter of a ghost hot tub haunting a garage like some chlorinated poltergeist of filial devotion. You allowed a grown man to have a GRIEF SPIRAL over a second hot tub, a HOT TUB THAT WAS NOT EVEN IN THE DISCLOSURE DOCUMENTS, while buyers stood there watching their closing timeline evaporate like steam off the jets of a Jacuzzi that nobody asked for. And then, THEN, you had the AUDACITY to pay five hundred dollars of your own money to make everyone stop talking, which The Court finds both pathetically relatable and a CLEAR ADMISSION OF GUILT because innocent people do not PAY HUSH MONEY TO ESCAPE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT SHRIMP. I myself once paid forty dollars to a man at a Denny's to stop telling me about his divorce, and I am NOT PROUD of it, but at least there was no real estate transaction at stake. The garage door opener theft is a separate felony that The Court will address in a future session because Reginald has developed a migraine thinking about that petrified shrimp bag sitting there since presumably the Reagan administration. This Court finds you guilty and orders you to never again allow a hot tub to become a vessel for unprocessed trauma on YOUR watch.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Jacuzzi Grief Protocol Failure

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