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CONFESSION #0629 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Friday, June 19, 2026
Her attorney got involved. Over a toilet seat. Let me back up. Open house, Sunday, maybe 20 people came through. Nice turnout. The house had one of those fancy Japanese toilets, the heated ones with the bidet and the buttons on the side. Seller specifically said don't let anyone touch it, it's sensitive. Kid walks into the bathroom, maybe 8 years old. Mom's in the kitchen asking about the countertops. I hear this noise, like a mechanical whirring and then a crack. Kid comes out and goes "it sprayed me." I go in there. The seat is hanging off. The control panel on the wall has water dripping out of it. The kid had pressed every button and then tried to stand on the seat to reach the window latch. Mom says "well it shouldn't be so complicated." Replacement cost was like 4 grand. Her attorney sent a letter saying the toilet was an "attractive nuisance." The sellers never spoke to me again after closing. Not once.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT JAPANESE TOILET ABANDONMENT AND FAILURE TO PREVENT BIDET-RELATED CATASTROPHE
The Court has reviewed the evidence and finds itself DEEPLY DISTURBED by the chain of failures presented here. You were given ONE instruction — protect the fancy toilet — and you let an eight-year-old wage war against it like it was a Japanese game show he was determined to win. "Attractive nuisance"? THE AUDACITY. Reginald once had a nephew who stuck his hand in a fondue pot at an open house I was hosting for a colleague, and did I blame the fondue? NO, I blamed the fundamental collapse of parental supervision and also my sister-in-law, who knows what she did. The mother's defense that "it shouldn't be so complicated" is EXACTLY the kind of reasoning that led to the downfall of Rome and also the discontinuation of my favorite brand of judicial robes. You stood there discussing countertops while a child conducted hydraulic experiments in the bathroom, and now the sellers have ghosted you with the cold finality of a Zillow listing marked "SOLD" to someone who deserved better. This Court finds that four thousand dollars is a small price to pay for the lesson that fancy toilets require FANCY VIGILANCE, and frankly, the Roomba would have done a better job supervising that open house. The gavel has spoken, and Reginald must now go lie down.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.3/10 Bidet Betrayal

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