suepat10
I am one of the 63336
We moved in to a new flat last weekend. We knew there was a youngish lad living upstairs but no idea who was living downstairs. A French couple, teachers, had lived in this flat before us.
About 5am Monday morning my son came in to our bedroom to say he could hear noises - he's at the back of the house. I opened his window and thought the noises were coming from outside.
Just after 10am I saw a community nurse standing ouside and then an ambulance pulled up outside and then a lot of banging started. I spoke to the nurse who told me an elderly lady lives in the flat and she had fallen over behind the kitchen door so they were having to carefully break down the door to get to her. They got her out around 11am and took her off to hospital. (We feel really bad that we didn't realise the noises were her calling for help).
I left for work about 11.30am and a woman was leaving the flat downstairs. She lives in one of the buildings next door. She was telling me the lady downstairs is 93 years old. The community nurse comes in twice a day and then this neighbour pops in twice a day. She also said that the elderly lady is fallign more and more frequently both at home and out.
She then went on to tell me how the couple who lived here before objected to the elderly lady having her telly on loud - she's hard of hearing. Apparently the only thing she watched on the telly would be Murder She Wrote or something similar of an afternoon and then the early evening news. The French couple kept putting notes through her door telling her if she didn't turn her telly down they would report her to the police and the police would confiscate her telly and fine her.
Being elderly she let them intimidate her and stopped watching the telly. If she knew they were in she would get a book and sit quietly in her back room so she didn't disturb them.
Later that evening there was a knock at the door and it was the French guy wondering if any post had arrived for him. My partner answered the door as I knew who it was and was still spitting feathers at the way they had treated the elderly lady.
Well, the French guy remarked to my partner 'You are luckier than us. The woman downstairs is deaf and had her television on loud. We put a stop to that' and you could tell by the sound of his voice he was proud with himself (I was standing in the kitchen eavesdropping).
My partner commented that it must be a cultural difference. The other guy enquired what he meant to which my partner replied 'In this country we treat our elders with proper respect and don't bully them' and slammed the door shut in his face.
Now, please don't think for one minute that we have anything against anyone of any other nationality than ourselves. We have many continental friends but this man needed putting in his place.
I know loud noises from adjoining properties can be frustrating but it's hardly like she was partying at all hours etc.
How DARE they intimidate and bully an elderly (93 years old for heavens sake!) woman to the extent she feels she can't enjoy a little bit of telly in case she upsets them! No disrespect meant, but she can't have much longer left so let her enjoy it.
She must have been born in around 1916 making her one of that generation of women who kept this country going during World War 2 etc. She would have been around the age many of us are when the current Queen came to the throne which illustrated her age!
B***dy ignorant a***es!!!
About 5am Monday morning my son came in to our bedroom to say he could hear noises - he's at the back of the house. I opened his window and thought the noises were coming from outside.
Just after 10am I saw a community nurse standing ouside and then an ambulance pulled up outside and then a lot of banging started. I spoke to the nurse who told me an elderly lady lives in the flat and she had fallen over behind the kitchen door so they were having to carefully break down the door to get to her. They got her out around 11am and took her off to hospital. (We feel really bad that we didn't realise the noises were her calling for help).
I left for work about 11.30am and a woman was leaving the flat downstairs. She lives in one of the buildings next door. She was telling me the lady downstairs is 93 years old. The community nurse comes in twice a day and then this neighbour pops in twice a day. She also said that the elderly lady is fallign more and more frequently both at home and out.
She then went on to tell me how the couple who lived here before objected to the elderly lady having her telly on loud - she's hard of hearing. Apparently the only thing she watched on the telly would be Murder She Wrote or something similar of an afternoon and then the early evening news. The French couple kept putting notes through her door telling her if she didn't turn her telly down they would report her to the police and the police would confiscate her telly and fine her.
Being elderly she let them intimidate her and stopped watching the telly. If she knew they were in she would get a book and sit quietly in her back room so she didn't disturb them.
Later that evening there was a knock at the door and it was the French guy wondering if any post had arrived for him. My partner answered the door as I knew who it was and was still spitting feathers at the way they had treated the elderly lady.
Well, the French guy remarked to my partner 'You are luckier than us. The woman downstairs is deaf and had her television on loud. We put a stop to that' and you could tell by the sound of his voice he was proud with himself (I was standing in the kitchen eavesdropping).
My partner commented that it must be a cultural difference. The other guy enquired what he meant to which my partner replied 'In this country we treat our elders with proper respect and don't bully them' and slammed the door shut in his face.
Now, please don't think for one minute that we have anything against anyone of any other nationality than ourselves. We have many continental friends but this man needed putting in his place.
I know loud noises from adjoining properties can be frustrating but it's hardly like she was partying at all hours etc.
How DARE they intimidate and bully an elderly (93 years old for heavens sake!) woman to the extent she feels she can't enjoy a little bit of telly in case she upsets them! No disrespect meant, but she can't have much longer left so let her enjoy it.
She must have been born in around 1916 making her one of that generation of women who kept this country going during World War 2 etc. She would have been around the age many of us are when the current Queen came to the throne which illustrated her age!
B***dy ignorant a***es!!!