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CONFESSION #0816 — OTHER AGENT WAS THE PROBLEM
Wednesday, August 26, 2026
The buyer loved the house. Perfect condition, priced right, we were ten days from closing. Then the other agent calls me and says her client wants to do a final walkthrough at 9pm because he works late. I said fine, gave them the lockbox code. Next morning the seller calls me screaming because someone left every faucet in the house running. Every single one. Upstairs bathroom overflowed, water came through the ceiling, ruined the hardwood in the living room. Twelve thousand dollars in damage.
I call the other agent and she says oh, her buyer must have been checking the water pressure. Checking the water pressure. And then what, forgot how faucets work? She never apologized, never offered to cover anything, just kept saying it was probably already leaking. The sellers had to file an insurance claim on their own house.
We closed three weeks late at a reduced price.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED AQUATIC NEGLIGENCE AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT PLUMBING-BASED PROPERTY DESTRUCTION
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself PHYSICALLY TREMBLING with judicial fury. Let Reginald be perfectly clear: in thirty-seven years of self-appointed service to this bench, I have never witnessed such a brazen act of hydraulic terrorism disguised as due diligence. "Checking the water pressure" — oh, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE CALLING IT? Because in Faucet v. Basic Human Cognition (2019), this Court established that any person who operates a water fixture and then WALKS AWAY WHILE IT CONTINUES TO RUN has forfeited their right to participate in real estate transactions, drive motor vehicles, or frankly exist near municipal water systems. I myself once left a bathtub running in 2014 and I STILL wake up in cold sweats about it, which is why I now shower exclusively at the gym despite not having a membership. The other agent's refusal to apologize constitutes what we in the legal community call "being an absolute barnacle on the hull of professionalism." That buyer didn't forget how faucets work — they knew EXACTLY what they were doing, probably standing in the driveway cackling while ceiling drywall wept like Reginald at his third divorce hearing. The Court hereby orders all parties to never again be trusted with running water, and I am adjourning immediately because Order the Roomba has begun circling my ankles in what I can only interpret as a motion to recess.
Felony Faucet Abandonment
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