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CONFESSION #0585 — STAGING DISASTER
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
The commission check was short. By like four hundred dollars because of a staging company damage claim that came out of my end. And honestly? It was my fault. The sellers had this massive fish tank, like 200 gallons, custom built into the wall. Staging company comes in, I'm not there, they move a bookshelf in front of the electrical panel that controlled the tank's filtration. Nobody notices for three days. Every single fish died. We're talking exotic stuff, saltwater, the husband kept saying "twelve hundred dollars of fish" over and over. The staging company blamed me for not flagging the tank situation. I blamed them for not asking. The sellers blamed everyone. We settled it by splitting costs and I just wanted the whole thing gone so I ate my portion. The listing photos still had the tank in them, full of beautiful living fish, and I had to explain to every single buyer why there was now an empty glass wall full of nothing.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT AQUARIUM MANSLAUGHTER AND CRIMINAL ABANDONMENT OF MARINE LIVESTOCK
The Court is FRANKLY HORRIFIED that you stood by while an entire ecosystem perished behind glass like some kind of underwater Pompeii, and now you come before Reginald expecting sympathy because YOUR COMMISSION WAS SHORT? Those fish trusted you, they trusted the FILTRATION SYSTEM, and you let a bookshelf — A BOOKSHELF — become their executioner. This is precisely the kind of cascading incompetence The Court witnessed in Staging Solutions LLC v. That Tank Full of Dead Clownfish, 2019, where the presiding judge noted that "failure to disclose critical infrastructure to third-party vendors constitutes a betrayal of both client and gill-breather alike." And do NOT get me started on showing listing photos with living fish when the actual property contained what I can only describe as a WALL-MOUNTED AQUATIC CEMETERY — that is bait-and-switch of the most emotionally devastating variety. The husband said "twelve hundred dollars of fish" over and over, and frankly The Court hears him in my dreams now too. I once lost a betta fish named Chancellor Reginald Jr. to a similar electrical mishap and I did NOT simply "eat my portion" and move on, I held a HEARING in my bathroom and found the power strip liable. You should have been there, you should have flagged the tank, you should have done ANYTHING other than hope a staging crew would intuit the existence of a two-hundred-gallon life support system, and now Reginald must go water his office plants because this ruling has made him emotional.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.3/10 Negligent Nemo Neglect

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