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CONFESSION #0478 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Saturday, April 25, 2026
The inspection came back clean. That's what I keep coming back to. Spotless report, we close in three weeks, everyone's happy. Open house is just a formality at this point. Maybe get some backup offers. Lady walks in, mid-sixties, very put together. She goes straight to the kitchen, opens the cabinet under the sink, and just starts pulling out the drain pipe. With her hands. I'm standing there holding a plate of cookies watching this woman disassemble plumbing. She goes "Polybutylene. This whole house is polybutylene." I said "Ma'am, can you please not—" "My husband did plumbing for 30 years. This is a ticking time bomb. You know about the class action?" Buyer was standing right there. Right there. Heard every word. Re-inspection found pipes throughout the whole system. Eight thousand dollar replacement estimate. Buyer walked. Seller's now suing the original inspector and won't talk to me. The lady left her card. She's a home inspector. Different company. I still have the cookies in my car.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE PRESENCE OF UNSOLICITED PIPE KNOWLEDGE AND FAILURE TO INTERCEPT A ROGUE PLUMBING VIGILANTE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself DEEPLY DISTURBED by the image of a sixty-something woman dismantling drain pipes with her bare hands while you stood there clutching baked goods like a confused caterer at a hostage situation. This is not an open house, this is an ambush, and you brought COOKIES to a POLYBUTYLENE FIGHT. Reginald himself once had a similar experience when a man at a showing began knocking on walls and announcing "that's not load-bearing" to anyone who would listen, and I did NOTHING, and that man later became my brother-in-law, and now every Thanksgiving he tells me which of my walls are "suggestions." You should have TACKLED that woman, or at least offered her a snickerdoodle as a DISTRACTION, but instead you let her hand out business cards like some kind of pipe-obsessed Johnny Appleseed sowing seeds of doubt in YOUR listing. The inspector who missed this should be tried separately, but YOU allowed a competitor to conduct a live audit of your property's circulatory system in front of the buyer, and The Court cannot abide such paralysis. Those cookies have been in your car for HOW long? Reginald is issuing a separate warrant for whatever is growing in that Tupperware. CASE CLOSED, The Court must now go check its own pipes and will not be taking questions.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.2/10 Ambushed By Plumbing Truth

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