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CONFESSION #0733 — STAGING DISASTER
Monday, July 27, 2026
The seller called while I was on vacation. Said the stager quit mid-job. Just walked out. Left half the furniture in the driveway. I'm like what do you mean the driveway. She goes "There's a sectional on the lawn and the movers won't touch it because they weren't the ones who brought it." So I'm calling the staging company and the owner picks up and immediately goes "Before you say anything, she doesn't work here anymore." I said I don't care who works where, there's a $4,000 couch getting rained on. He goes "It's not raining." I said it's GOING to rain. Long pause. Then he goes "That's not really our couch anymore. We sold it to the stager as part of her severance." Her severance. They gave her a couch as severance. And she just. Left it there. The listing photos were supposed to be Thursday. I spent six hours on the phone trying to figure out who legally owned a wet sectional.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED FURNITURE ABANDONMENT AND CONSPIRACY TO CREATE A COUCH-BASED JURISDICTIONAL NIGHTMARE
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the phrase "sold it to the stager as part of her severance." SEVERANCE. They gave this woman a COUCH as severance, and she responded by depositing it on a lawn like some kind of upholstered protest art. Reginald has seen many things in his years on this bench, but the image of a $4,000 sectional becoming a water feature while three separate parties argue about ownership is exactly why I no longer attend outdoor furniture sales. You spent six hours trying to determine who legally owned a wet sectional — SIX HOURS — and The Court must inform you that pursuant to the landmark decision in Rooms To Go v. That One Weird Divorce Settlement (2019), any couch left on a lawn for more than four hours becomes the legal property of whoever photographs it first, which means those listing photos would have shown a home that came with a FREE LAWSUIT. The staging company owner's response of "it's not raining" is the kind of technically-correct-but-cosmically-useless statement that makes me want to subpoena the weather itself. I once had a similar dispute with my neighbor over a patio umbrella and we haven't spoken since 2017, which is FINE. The Court rules that you are guilty not of negligence but of being the only competent adult in a situation where a couch achieved sentient victimhood, and Reginald must now adjourn because Order the Roomba has detected crumbs in the deliberation chamber.
SCANDAL RATING: 5.7/10 Sectional Abandonment Crisis

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