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CONFESSION #0462 — SHOWING GONE WRONG
Monday, April 20, 2026
The deal closed six weeks late. And yeah, that was on me. Showing the house, buyers loved it, everything's going great. They want to see the basement again. I'm walking them down and my heel catches on something and I grab the handrail and the whole thing just. Comes off the wall. Like the entire bannister. I'm holding it. Standing there holding a six foot wooden railing while drywall dust is floating down. The husband starts laughing which honestly made it worse. The wife is already on her phone taking pictures for quote documentation purposes. Here's the thing though. I should have flagged that railing in my notes from the first walkthrough. It was wobbly. I noticed it. I just figured the inspector would catch it. But now suddenly it's a whole structural concern and they want engineers to look at the staircase framing and the sellers are furious at me specifically. Twelve hundred dollars in repairs. Could have been nothing. Could have just written it down.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE OF WOBBLE, RECKLESS BANNISTER ENDANGERMENT, AND WILLFUL DELEGATION TO THE INSPECTOR GODS
The Court has reviewed the evidence and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the phrase "I just figured the inspector would catch it." You FIGURED? You FIGURED? Reginald does not FIGURE, Reginald DOCUMENTS, and Reginald has NEVER ripped a bannister from a wall like some kind of home improvement Incredible Hulk. The wobble was KNOWN to you, it was FELT by your very hands during that first walkthrough, and yet you chose the path of HOPE over the path of a simple notation in your phone. This Court once dated a woman who said she "figured" her check engine light was "probably fine" and now she drives a bus, which is UNRELATED but speaks to a pattern of societal decay that begins EXACTLY with wobbly railings left unmentioned. You stood there holding six feet of oak like a jousting lance while drywall particles seasoned the air like the world's worst snow globe, and the husband LAUGHED, which this Court finds to be an additional wound you must carry. Twelve hundred dollars and six weeks of your life, gone, because you trusted an inspector to do YOUR job of noticing things that move when they should not move. The Court hereby sentences you to a lifetime of touching every railing twice and writing it down, and also suggests you send the sellers a fruit basket, not because it will help, but because Reginald enjoys the thought of you standing in a grocery store trying to choose between pears and kiwis while contemplating your failures.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.4/10 Wobble Denier

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