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CONFESSION #0716 — SHOWING GONE WRONG
Wednesday, July 22, 2026
The second showing was supposed to be quick. Couple in their 30s, already saw it online, just wanted to confirm the layout before making an offer, that's what they said, and the seller was supposed to be gone but she wasn't, she was in the basement doing laundry (which I didn't know because I came in through the garage like we agreed), and the buyers' kid, who nobody told me was coming, found the cat. Not a problem except the cat had been locked in the master bedroom for a reason, which was that the cat does not like strangers, and by the time I heard the screaming the kid had already knocked over this glass display case trying to get away. The seller comes running up from the basement in a bathrobe, the mom is crying, the dad is asking me if they're liable, and I'm standing there looking at what I later learned was a $1,200 collection of vintage perfume bottles, just shattered, and the cat is on top of the refrigerator hissing. The seller's now saying she wants to pull the listing entirely because of the emotional distress. The buyers left without saying goodbye. I still don't know who's paying for the bottles.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF NEGLIGENT FELINE CONTAINMENT LEADING TO CATASTROPHIC PERFUME BOTTLE ANNIHILATION IN THE SECOND DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the cascade of failures presented before it today. You came in through the garage "like we agreed" but somehow failed to conduct even a PRELIMINARY CAT SWEEP of the premises, a basic protocol established in Whiskers v. Open House Chaos, 2019, a case Reginald remembers vividly because he ruled on it from a Panera Bread parking lot. A $1,200 vintage perfume collection now lies in fragments because you treated this showing like a casual stroll through a property rather than what it actually is: A SACRED COVENANT BETWEEN AGENT, SELLER, BUYER, AND ANY DOMESTICATED ANIMALS WITH KNOWN BEHAVIORAL ISSUES. The Court must pause here to note that I once had a cat named Chancellor who also did not like strangers, and I respected Chancellor's boundaries, which is more than can be said for whatever child was apparently allowed to roam FREE like some sort of feral listing inspector. You stand there asking who pays for the bottles as if the answer is not OBVIOUSLY you, the person who failed to verify seller absence, failed to inquire about pets, and failed to establish whether CHILDREN would be present at what was supposed to be a professional real estate transaction. The seller is in a bathrobe, the cat has claimed the refrigerator as sovereign territory, and Reginald has seen ENOUGH. This Court hereby orders you to pay for the perfume bottles, apologize to the cat in writing, and never again enter a property through the garage without announcing yourself like a person with a functioning sense of professional duty.
Catastrophic Cat Negligence
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