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CONFESSION #0701 — SHOWING GONE WRONG
Thursday, July 16, 2026
She rejected the offer. Not because of the price, not because of the inspection, because of the dog. The seller's dog. Golden retriever, sweet as anything, followed us around the whole showing wagging its tail. My buyer loved the house, loved the yard, loved the kitchen with the weird green tile she said she'd keep. Put in an offer twelve thousand over asking. Seller comes back and says no, her dog didn't like my buyer. Says the dog growled once when we were in the basement and that's never happened before so it must mean something.
The dog didn't growl. I was there. The dog yawned. I heard it yawn. But the seller's convinced, won't budge, says she's waiting for someone her dog approves of.
My buyer cried in my car for twenty minutes. The house sold six weeks later for forty thousand less.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CANINE JUDICIAL MALPRACTICE AND UNLAWFUL DELEGATION OF FIDUCIARY AUTHORITY TO AN UNQUALIFIED GOLDEN RETRIEVER
The Court is APOPLECTIC. This seller has committed what can only be described as a constitutional crisis of the residential variety, ceding veto power over a twelve-thousand-dollar-over-asking offer to a creature that eats its own vomit and considers a tennis ball a worthy adversary. A YAWN. The dog YAWNED. Reginald has reviewed the seminal case of Barksworth v. Reasonable Human Judgment, 2019, and the precedent is CLEAR: drowsy canine behavior does not constitute grounds for contract rejection. The Court must pause here to note that my own mother once refused to sell her Buick to a man because her cat hissed at his shoes, and I have not spoken to her since Thanksgiving of 2017, so perhaps Reginald takes this personally. Your buyer wept in your vehicle for twenty minutes while a golden retriever with NO real estate license, NO E&O insurance, and NO understanding of comparable sales data was permitted to torpedo a transaction. The seller then watched forty thousand dollars evaporate into the ether waiting for some mythical dog-approved purchaser, proving once again that humanity remains unworthy of homeownership. The Court hereby declares this the most egregious miscarriage of transactional justice since that time a seller rejected an offer because Mercury was in retrograde, and Reginald must now go lie down.
Bark-Based Betrayal
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