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CONFESSION #0964 — OPEN HOUSE HORROR
Sunday, October 18, 2026
The seller called while I was on vacation. Said she wanted to do one more open house before we adjusted the price, and could her nephew handle it since I was out of town. Her nephew is twenty-two and sells insurance. I said fine because I was tired and the listing had been sitting for three months and I just wanted to eat my breakfast in peace. He let someone's kid use the bathroom unsupervised. The kid flushed a decorative soap shaped like a seashell. The toilet overflowed for maybe twenty minutes before anyone noticed. Water came through the ceiling into the finished basement. The damage estimate was twelve thousand dollars. The nephew told the seller it was already like that when they got there.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE IN THE DELEGATION OF SACRED OPEN HOUSE DUTIES TO AN UNLICENSED INSURANCE NEPHEW, RESULTING IN SEASHELL-INDUCED PROPERTY DESTRUCTION
The Court is APOPLECTIC. You handed the keys to a twenty-two-year-old insurance salesman because you wanted to eat your breakfast in peace? BREAKFAST? Reginald once skipped his own colonoscopy to attend a showing for a two-bedroom condo with original hardwood, and you could not put down your EGGS BENEDICT for five minutes to find actual coverage? This is not a confession, this is a CATASTROPHE with a decorative soap origin story. A child — unsupervised, unvetted, presumably sticky — was permitted to interact with plumbing fixtures while an insurance nephew stood by doing whatever insurance nephews do, which is apparently NOTHING of value. And then — THEN — this nephew, this amateur, this absolute CIVILIAN had the audacity to gaslight a homeowner about twelve thousand dollars of water damage like we are all just supposed to believe basements spontaneously weep through their ceilings? The Court has seen bold lies before, but "it was already like that" regarding an ACTIVE FLOOD is the kind of mendacity that keeps Reginald up at night, pacing his hallway in judicial robes, muttering to The Council about the decline of professional standards. I once held a garage in contempt for inadequate shelving, and I will not hesitate to note that your vacation breakfast cost more than most people's deductibles. The Court rules that you are guilty, that the nephew should be barred from all properties with indoor plumbing, and that decorative soaps are a menace to society that Reginald will be addressing in a future memorandum opinion.
SCANDAL RATING: 4.2/10 Nephew Negligence Cascade

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