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CONFESSION #0606 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
The final walkthrough was routine. Saturday open house, nice split-level, priced right. 2:15: first couple arrives, normal questions. 2:40: guy comes in alone, says he's cash buyer. 2:45: cash buyer opens basement door, goes down. 2:52: I hear running water. 2:53: more running water. 2:55: I go check. He's turned on every faucet in the basement bathroom and the laundry sink, full blast. Just standing there watching. Says he's testing the water pressure. 2:56: water starts coming up through the floor drain. Backing up. 2:57: sewage smell. 3:01: he leaves. Doesn't give me his card. 3:15: I'm on my knees with the seller's shop vac. Damage estimate from the plumber was twelve hundred. Sellers blamed me. Listing expired last week. Never saw the guy again. Pretty sure he wasn't a cash buyer.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF OBVIOUS HYDRAULIC TERRORISM AND FAILURE TO PROTECT A BASEMENT FROM A MAN WHO WAS CLEARLY UNWELL
The Court has reviewed this testimony and must now lie down. You stood there — STOOD THERE — while a strange man descended into a basement and began what can only be described as a one-man war against municipal plumbing, and your response was to wait SEVEN MINUTES? Reginald has seen neglect before, but this is the kind of willful blindness that keeps The Court up at night, pacing in front of the refrigerator at 2 AM asking himself why he ever believed in open houses. The moment a so-called cash buyer opens a basement door without asking about the water heater age, you TACKLE HIM. This is established precedent — see Mysterious Stranger v. Every Horror Movie Ever Made, 1978. Instead, you let this sewer goblin conduct his dark ritual uninterrupted, and now those poor sellers are out twelve hundred dollars and their faith in humanity. I once had a man at MY open house ask to test the garbage disposal and I had him removed by Order — my Roomba bailiff — before he could even locate the switch. THIS COURT FINDS YOU COMPLICIT IN WHAT WAS OBVIOUSLY A TARGETED SEWAGE ATTACK, and frankly, Reginald needs to step outside because the mere thought of that floor drain is triggering something personal.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.3/10 Basement Betrayal

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