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CONFESSION #0691 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Monday, July 13, 2026
We were three days from closing. The buyer wanted one last walkthrough, which made sense, sure. Except she brought her mother. And her mother brought a hammer.
Not like hidden in a purse. Just carrying it. I said "oh is that for—" and the mother said "I test walls."
She tested walls. She put six holes in the drywall before I could even process what was happening. The buyer just stood there nodding like this was a normal thing mothers do.
"This one's hollow," the mother announced. "This one's hollow too. They're all hollow."
I said "ma'am those are interior walls, they're supposed to be—"
"Hollow means cheap. My daughter deserves solid."
The seller's agent called me screaming about the holes. Eight hundred dollars in drywall repair. The buyer's mother said "you're welcome" when they left.
They still closed. The mother sent me a card afterward that just said "check the attic."
I haven't checked the attic. I'm never checking the attic.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FACE OF MATERNAL DEMOLITION AND WILLFUL ATTIC AVOIDANCE
The Court is APOPLECTIC. You stood there, a licensed professional, while a woman — a MOTHER, no less — committed what can only be described as exploratory drywall terrorism, and your response was to offer a brief tutorial on interior wall construction? Reginald once watched his own mother test a cantaloupe by dropping it from shoulder height in a Kroger, and even HE had the dignity to pretend he didn't know her. You allowed six holes, AGENT. Six. That's not a walkthrough, that's a percussion concert. And now you sit before this Court, haunted by a card that says "check the attic," and you have the AUDACITY to tell me you won't look? The attic is not optional. The attic is EVIDENCE. For all we know, that mother has been nesting up there since 2019, waiting, hammer in hand, ready to test the structural integrity of your entire career. As established in Hammer v. Drywall Integrity Board (2022), "she who does not intervene in maternal wall testing shall inherit the mystery of the attic." The Court finds you guilty, deeply unsettled, and orders you to ascend those pull-down stairs within forty-eight hours or face Reginald's disappointment, which is considerable.
Hollow Victory
Have a confession? Judge Reginald Escrow III's docket is always open.
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