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CONFESSION #0570 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Thursday, May 28, 2026
We were three days from closing. The buyers wanted one final walkthrough which is normal, totally normal, except they brought their kids this time (two boys, maybe 8 and 10) and I'm showing the wife something about the water heater in the basement when we hear this sound from upstairs like, I don't even know how to describe it, like a bowling ball going through drywall. Which is basically what happened because the older one found a decorative concrete sphere in the backyard and decided to see if he could throw it through the second-floor hallway window from inside the house. He missed the window. He hit the wall. Then the sphere went through the wall into the primary bedroom and took out a section of built-in shelving that the sellers had custom installed for like twelve thousand dollars. The dad's face went completely blank and he just said "boys will be boys" and I had to excuse myself to the bathroom and sit on the edge of the tub for probably five minutes. The closing got pushed two weeks. The repair estimate came in at nine thousand because apparently you can't just patch custom millwork. The buyers tried to argue it should come out of the seller's proceeds because "the house wasn't secured for children" and I'm still not sure if they were serious.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE SUPERVISION OF FERAL OFFSPRING AND ACCESSORY TO ARCHITECTURAL VANDALISM BY DECORATIVE SPHERE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the phrase "boys will be boys," a statement which has historically been used to excuse everything from minor mischief to what we see here: THE PREMEDITATED ASSAULT OF CUSTOM MILLWORK BY A CHILD WHO APPARENTLY BELIEVES HE IS TRAINING FOR SOME KIND OF INDOOR SHOT PUT COMPETITION. Let Reginald be clear, when a decorative concrete sphere travels through drywall and OBLITERATES twelve thousand dollars worth of built-in shelving, we are no longer in "boys will be boys" territory, we are in "boys will be defendants" territory, and their parents will be CO-CONSPIRATORS. The audacity, the SHEER UNMITIGATED AUDACITY of then arguing the sellers should pay because the house "wasn't secured for children" suggests these buyers believe homes should come standard with padded walls and tranquilizer dart systems, and frankly The Court is now questioning whether YOUR bathroom retreat was strategic cowardice or the only thing standing between you and a complete psychological break. I once watched a Labrador knock a For Sale sign into a koi pond and felt more faith in that animal's judgment than I do in these parents, and I remind you that Labrador was later disbarred from my courtyard for unrelated reasons. The Court rules that you are guilty only of insufficient screaming, and that the buyers owe not just nine thousand dollars but a FORMAL WRITTEN APOLOGY to the concept of interior craftsmanship itself. Reginald must now go lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.7/10 Millwork Massacre

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