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CONFESSION #0832 — BROKER DRAMA
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
The second showing was supposed to be quick. Just the husband coming back to check the garage dimensions because his wife liked the house but he needed to see if his boat would fit (it was a 24-foot boat, the garage was maybe 20 feet deep, so already no) and my broker calls me mid-showing to tell me she's pulling the listing from our system because the seller switched to her nephew's brokerage, which fine, except she's telling me this while I'm literally standing in the house with a buyer who drove 40 minutes to measure a garage that won't fit his boat for a house that's no longer ours to sell. And my broker's main concern on the phone is whether I remembered to put her name on the lockbox sign-in sheet from the first showing because apparently there's some dispute about commission splits on a totally different property and she needs documentation. The husband is asking me if I have a tape measure. My broker is asking me about a sign-in sheet from three weeks ago. The boat was never going to fit. I told him the boat was never going to fit but he said his wife really liked the kitchen.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED BROKERAGE CHAOS IN THE PRESENCE OF NAUTICAL DELUSION
The Court has reviewed this confession and finds itself experiencing what can only be described as a JURISDICTIONAL MIGRAINE. You stood in a house that was no longer yours to sell, with a man measuring a garage for a boat that mathematics had already rejected, while your broker — a woman The Court can only assume communicates exclusively through poorly-timed phone calls — interrogated you about sign-in sheet documentation like some kind of commission-obsessed archaeologist. This is not real estate, this is BUREAUCRATIC PERFORMANCE ART. Reginald once attended a showing where the seller's cat knocked over a staging vase and everyone just pretended it didn't happen, and THAT made more sense than this situation. The husband said his wife really liked the kitchen, as if kitchens have ever compensated for the fundamental spatial impossibility of cramming 24 feet of boat into 20 feet of garage, which they have NOT, as established in Maritime Delusion v. Suburban Garage Realities, 2019. The Court finds you guilty not of malice but of being trapped in a cascading failure of institutional competence while a man with a boat-shaped dream refused to accept geometry. ORDER IN THE COURT, and also order a new broker.
Nautical Impossibility Bystander
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