Advertisement
CONFESSION #0544 — INSPECTION NIGHTMARE
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
Both parties had signed. Friday: buyers schedule inspection for Monday. Saturday: seller's nephew moves a couch and puts it through the living room window. Sunday: seller calls me crying, asks if we can postpone. Monday morning: inspector shows up, I show up, giant piece of plywood where the front window should be. Buyers see it. Buyers leave. Tuesday: seller gets quote for window replacement, twelve hundred dollars. Wednesday: buyers want a credit for three thousand. Thursday: seller says no. Friday: buyers say they're walking. Saturday: I'm in my car eating a sandwich when seller texts that his nephew will pay for the window himself. Sunday: nephew says he never agreed to that. Monday: back to square one. The window's still plywood. My commission on this place is maybe four grand and I've spent twenty hours on a couch.
Advertisement
Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL WINDOW NEGLIGENCE AND ACCESSORY TO COUCH-BASED PROPERTY DESTRUCTION IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this CATASTROPHIC CAROUSEL OF INCOMPETENCE and finds itself genuinely dizzy. You have spent twenty hours — TWENTY HOURS — mediating a dispute between a lying seller, a couch-wielding nephew who apparently has the upper body strength of a rhinoceros but the accountability of a summer breeze, and buyers who saw plywood and thought "ah yes, let me triple the repair cost because I am ALSO terrible." Reginald once had a nephew who broke a decorative mirror in my foyer and I have not spoken to him since 2017, so I understand family disappointment, but at least I did not then try to commit him to a financial obligation via TEXT MESSAGE on a SATURDAY. The Court notes that you were eating a sandwich in your car when this text arrived, which suggests you have already accepted that your life is a series of sad parking lot meals punctuated by other people's chaos. Under the precedent established in Plywood Holdings v. That Nephew Everyone Has, 2019, this Court finds that you should have walked away the moment furniture achieved velocity. Your commission divided by your hours worked is now approximately the cost of a moderately disappointing lunch, and The Court must adjourn because Order the Roomba has just collided with the witness stand and Reginald cannot be expected to work under these conditions.
SCANDAL RATING: 1.9/10 Fenestration Fiasco

Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.

Submit Anonymously → Subscribe to the Newsletter
Advertisement

← Back to the Full Docket