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CONFESSION #0527 — SHOWING GONE WRONG
Thursday, May 14, 2026
The wire didn't arrive. That's the whole thing, that's the context. Buyers were supposed to close at 2, wire's not there, title company's calling me every 20 minutes, and the sellers had movers already loading their truck. So I'm trying to keep everyone calm, I'm on the phone with the lender, and I completely forgot I had a showing at 4. Just gone from my brain.
The clients show up to a locked house. They drove 45 minutes. Called me six times while I was on hold with some processor named Linda who kept putting me on hold to "check with her supervisor."
Here's the thing though — I could have just rescheduled. They would have understood. But I panicked and told them the seller had a family emergency. Which was a lie. And then the listing agent heard I said that and called me asking if everything was okay because she thought someone died.
Nobody died. The wire came through at 4:47. I still haven't called those buyers back.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT ABANDONMENT OF SHOWING DUTIES WITH AGGRAVATED FABRICATION OF FAMILY TRAGEDY
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer audacity of invoking a fake family emergency like some kind of discount community theater understudy. You had ONE showing, and instead of simply saying "I am drowning in wire transfer purgatory," you chose to summon the specter of DEATH upon innocent sellers who were just trying to move their sectional sofa into a U-Haul. Linda from processing is not on trial here, though Reginald has THOUGHTS about Linda and her supervisor and the entire mortgage industrial complex that keeps honest judges waiting by their phones for refinance updates that NEVER COME. Those buyers drove 45 minutes, which in some jurisdictions is considered a PILGRIMAGE, and you repaid their devotion with six unanswered calls and a ghost story. The listing agent now believes she needs to send flowers to a grieving family THAT DOES NOT EXIST, and somewhere a condolence casserole is being prepared under FALSE PRETENSES. The Court once missed a critical ruling because I was arguing with a Keurig about water reservoir placement, but even I had the DECENCY to blame the machine and not fabricate human casualties. Call those buyers back or The Court will haunt YOUR showings.
Phantom Funeral Fraud
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