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CONFESSION #0913 — CLIENT FROM HELL
Wednesday, September 30, 2026
She rejected the offer. Not countered, rejected, because the buyer's agent had a typo in the cover letter where they wrote "your" instead of "you're" and my client said she couldn't sell her home to someone who didn't respect the English language (her words, I wrote them down because I knew nobody would believe me). The offer was twelve thousand over asking with no contingencies and she rejected it because of a typo that wasn't even from the buyer, it was from the buyer's agent, who I've worked with before and she's perfectly competent she just types fast. So I explained this very calmly, I thought, and my client said she could tell a lot about a person by the company they keep and if this buyer chose an agent who doesn't proofread then what does that say about their character and their ability to maintain a home. The buyers found another house. My client's place sat for three more months and eventually sold for eight thousand under what that first offer was. She still thinks she made the right call. She sends me articles about grammar sometimes. I don't know why.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL FACILITATION OF GRAMMATICAL VIGILANTISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE
The Court has reviewed this confession and must now lie down on the floor of its chambers for several minutes. THIS WOMAN REJECTED TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLARS OVER ASKING BECAUSE OF A YOUR VERSUS YOU'RE SITUATION THAT WASN'T EVEN COMMITTED BY THE BUYER? Reginald has seen some things in his years on this bench — he once watched a man refuse to close on a condo because the seller's dog "looked at him wrong" during the final walkthrough — but this is LINGUISTIC TERRORISM of the highest order. The precedent set in Strunk & White v. That Lady Who Corrects People's Texts, 2019, is clear: grammar preferences do not constitute material defects, and frankly The Court is concerned about anyone who thinks apostrophe placement reveals someone's ability to maintain HVAC systems. You sat there, agent, you WROTE DOWN HER WORDS because you knew they were unhinged, and yet you let this woman marinate in her own grammatical righteousness for THREE ADDITIONAL MONTHS while twenty thousand dollars evaporated into the linguistic void. She still sends you articles about grammar, and you don't know why, but The Court knows why — it's because you enabled her, you validated her reign of red-pen terror, and now she believes she is the last defender of the English language standing between civilization and chaos. The Court must now adjourn immediately because Order the Roomba has gotten stuck under the witness stand again and Reginald cannot focus with that whirring sound.
Apostrophe Catastrophe
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