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CONFESSION #0809 — MARKET WHIPLASH
Monday, August 24, 2026
The commission check was short. Not like a little short, like twelve thousand dollars short. Brokerage said it was a clerical error but also maybe I owed them from a deal that fell through in March? Nobody could explain which deal or why I would owe anything. Three emails, two phone calls, everyone's pointing at someone else's department. Meanwhile my buyer from that same transaction calls me crying because the sellers left behind a chest freezer in the garage. Full. Unplugged for six weeks. She wanted me to come deal with it personally and I'm sitting here looking at a commission statement that doesn't add up while this woman describes the smell to me in detail. Genuine detail. She's gagging between sentences. Twelve thousand dollars and a freezer full of meat. That was Tuesday.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE FIRST DEGREE OF FIDUCIARY DECOMPOSITION AND WILLFUL PARTICIPATION IN A BROKERAGE PONZI SCHEME OF ACCOUNTABILITY
The Court has reviewed the evidence and frankly, Reginald needs a moment because THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS when you let accounting departments operate without judicial oversight. Twelve thousand dollars does not simply VANISH like my father's approval or the equity in a 2008 condo flip — someone TOOK that money and hid it behind the phrase "clerical error," which is legal Latin for "we hope you stop asking." And yet The Court finds EQUAL FAULT with the agent who apparently sold a home containing what can only be described as a biological crime scene in a Kenmore chassis, because WHOSE JOB WAS IT to verify that freezer situation during final walkthrough? NOT THE BUYER'S. I myself once discovered a previous owner had left behind seventeen jars of unlabeled preserves and I handled it with DIGNITY by hiring a hazmat-certified psychic, but that is neither here nor there. You are standing at the intersection of two catastrophes — one financial, one olfactory — and somehow you have become the VICTIM of both while being RESPONSIBLE for neither, which is the most damning indictment of all because accountability, much like that meat, has clearly spoiled beyond recognition. The Court awards you nothing, bills you for emotional damages to this bench, and suggests you never answer your phone on a Tuesday again. Reginald must now consult with The Council.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Fiduciary Putrefaction

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