The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer governmental incompetence on display here, though let the record reflect that the agent is somehow ALSO guilty for not anticipating that a county office would operate like a time loop designed by Kafka. This Court once waited nine hours at a DMV only to be told my number had been called while I was in the restroom, and I emerged from that experience a CHANGED and more suspicious man, so do not speak to Reginald of bureaucratic suffering as though he does not KNOW. You drove to the county office like some kind of optimist, which frankly shows poor judgment, and the fact that a WATER HEATER permit destroyed a four hundred thousand dollar transaction is so cosmically absurd that The Court must assume the universe itself has retained counsel against you. In re: That One Permit Nobody Could Find, 2019, this Court established that any document older than three years existing only in a crashed portal is legally equivalent to a rumor, and you should have treated it as such. The woman who told you to try the online portal after you explained the online portal was down should be hauled before this bench IMMEDIATELY, but since she is not present, you shall absorb her sins as well. The Court is going to lie down now because this ruling has given Reginald a tension headache directly behind his left eye.