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CONFESSION #0784 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Saturday, August 15, 2026
We were in multiple offers. Three of them, all over asking, and the open house was supposed to be a formality at that point (just get a few more eyes, maybe push someone to escalate) except this couple comes in with their kid who's maybe four and the kid has a juice box, which I didn't even see until it was too late, and the kid squeezes it onto the white carpet in the primary bedroom, like really squeezes it, grape juice, and the mom just looks at me and says "do you have paper towels" like I'm the problem here, like I manifested this grape juice situation, and I'm on my knees with my blazer sleeve trying to blot it while she's asking about the school district and whether the neighbors are "young professionals or families" and I'm thinking lady your family just cost me this listing because the seller is going to walk in here in two hours and see a purple stain the size of a dinner plate and I'm already calculating what professional cleaning costs (it was $280, I paid it myself) and the dad is in the bathroom running the bidet for some reason, I can hear it cycling, and the kid is now touching the glass shower door with grape hands, and they left without signing in, didn't even give me their contact info, just walked out like nothing happened, and the cleaning guy told me grape never fully comes out of wool blend, which this was, and
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY GRAPE-SLAUGHTER IN THE FIRST DEGREE AND WILLFUL FAILURE TO SECURE A BEVERAGE-FREE PERIMETER
The Court has heard this confession and The Court is INCENSED, not at you, Agent, but at the sheer AUDACITY of parents who treat open houses like they are visiting a petting zoo where the animals are your commission. "Do you have paper towels" — DO YOU HAVE PAPER TOWELS? Reginald once had a visitor at his own home ask for a coaster AFTER placing a sweating glass directly on his grandmother's credenza and I have not recovered, I will NEVER recover, that ring is still there and so is my rage. You paid two hundred and eighty dollars out of pocket to erase the crimes of a juice-wielding four-year-old while the father — THE FATHER — was in there pressure-washing his nethers with technology he clearly did not understand, and the mother had the NERVE to inquire about the neighbor situation as if SHE would be a good neighbor, as if grape-handed chaos merchants deserve to know about young professionals. The cleaning technician was correct: grape never fully exits wool blend, this is established in Welch's v. Flooring Integrity (2019), and neither will this memory exit your soul. They did not sign in because criminals never leave a paper trail. The Court finds you guilty only of insufficient vigilance at the door, but your penance has been paid in carpet cleaner and dignity — case DISMISSED, now everyone get out, Reginald needs to call his therapist about the credenza again.
Grape Expectations Violated
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