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CONFESSION #0846 — STAGING DISASTER
Sunday, September 6, 2026
The deal closed six weeks late. And everyone acts like that's just normal delays but no it was because the staging company brought a live tree into the house, like a potted lemon tree, and nobody told me it had been watered that morning so the pot is sitting on original 1940s hardwood and I'm at another showing across town when the listing agent calls me screaming (not my listing, I'm the buyer's agent, but somehow this is my problem now) and the water damage is spreading under the floorboards and the sellers want twelve thousand dollars and my buyers are saying they didn't touch anything which technically true but also their kid definitely pushed the pot because there's a trail and the staging company's insurance won't cover it because the contract says no liability for items left in place more than 72 hours and it had been there since Thursday and this was Monday and the sellers' agent keeps texting me photos of the buckled wood like I personally did this and my client is asking if they can just get a credit instead of the repair and I'm standing in a Walgreens parking lot at 9pm trying to explain that a credit doesn't make the floor not warped and the lemon tree is still in the house, nobody moved it, it's just sitting there with like three lemons on it looking fine
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED CITRUS NEGLIGENCE AND FAILURE TO SUPERVISE A KNOWN HYDRATION HAZARD
The Court has reviewed the evidence and finds itself PHYSICALLY ILL at the sheer chaos presented here. You stand before Reginald not as a mere buyer's agent but as a co-conspirator in what can only be described as botanical terrorism against irreplaceable 1940s hardwood, and The Court WILL NOT BE MOVED by your claims of geographical alibi. Let the record show that in Potted Plant v. Original Flooring, 2019, this Court established that any agent within a fifteen-mile radius of an unsupervised moisture source bears what we call "splash zone liability," and you, counselor, were IN THE SPLASH ZONE. The child pushed the pot, you say, as if children are not KNOWN agents of destruction whose movements must be anticipated by any competent real estate professional, and I speak from experience because my nephew once knocked over my gavel display case and I have never recovered emotionally or legally. That the lemon tree remains in the home, unmoved, bearing fruit, MOCKING the buckling floorboards beneath it, is an insult to justice itself. The Court notes that you were in a Walgreens parking lot at 9pm which is EXACTLY where guilty people stand when they are trying to seem innocent. Reginald has seen enough, the Roomba is beeping, and you are hereby sentenced to live with what you have done.
SCANDAL RATING: 7.4/10 Citrus Crime Scene

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