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CONFESSION #0476 — STAGING DISASTER
Saturday, April 25, 2026
The buyers came back for a third showing. Monday at 2pm. Staging company had been in for a week. Tuesday 11am: get a call from the listing agent. The cat got in. Wednesday: what cat. Thursday: seller's neighbor has a cat. Friday: cat had been locked in the staged house for six days. Saturday: I see the damage. Sunday: staging company sends invoice. $4,200 for the sofa. $800 for the rug. $340 for three throw pillows. Monday: seller says not my cat not my problem. Tuesday: neighbor says prove it. Wednesday: listing agent finds cat hair in the heating vent. A lot of cat hair. Thursday: buyers ask about the smell. Friday: we drop the price twelve thousand dollars. The cat is fine apparently. Living its best life next door.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF UNAUTHORIZED FELINE OCCUPANCY AND CONSPIRACY TO CONCEAL OLFACTORY EVIDENCE
The Court has reviewed this WEEK-LONG HOSTAGE SITUATION and frankly Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO MY COUSIN'S TIMESHARE IN PENSACOLA. You stood by while a neighborhood cat conducted what can only be described as a six-day interior demolition project, turning a professionally staged living room into what I can only assume now resembles the floor of a PetSmart after an earthquake. The Court finds it UNCONSCIONABLE that a $4,200 sofa was sacrificed to the whims of a creature whose entire life philosophy is knocking things off tables, and do not even get me started on the three hundred and forty dollars for throw pillows because I KNOW those were from HomeGoods and cost eleven dollars each MAXIMUM. The heating vent hair situation alone constitutes a Class B felony under In re: That One Listing With The Ferret Problem, 2019, and the fact that you dropped the price TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS while the perpetrator is next door quote living its best life unquote is the kind of injustice that makes The Council of Gavels WEEP. The neighbor knows what they did, the cat knows what it did, and THIS COURT KNOWS WHAT EVERYONE DID.
Catastrophic Feline Containment Failure
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