Neighbor Broke her Hip
By NailTech
@NailTech (6874)
United States
December 31, 2012 6:06pm CST
This is the same neighbor who many years ago caused us to give away a litter of kitties cause she was complaining and saying they were using her garden as a bathroom. She just hated cats in general and was always a dog person. She listened to the old hag down the street one day who told her to throw cat crap in our driveway and we were finding it there all the time even after that first litter of cats were gone anymore. I'm sure there were other cats who used her property as well. Well, yesterday I was informed she slipped maybe three weeks ago on her driveway and broke her hip and is still in the hospital. She must be at least 85 years old. Is it wrong for me to feel no compassion whatsoever? I mean this lady has lived for so long and caused so much aggravation and heartache that I just can't ever forgive her. I still cry for the poor kitties that my mother called to take them away. I haven't been the same since, I think alot of the things in my life at the time started to take a downward spiral after that happened when I was just a teen. I was a sensitive kid and other things in my life were messed up and always felt like I could turn to my pets when no one else was there for me. So this is not something I can actually find to be sad for the neighbor. She did/said alot of other mean things as well, and she thinks she is someone special just because she married a politician years prior. How would you feel if she were your neighbor? Sad now or not?
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@vidhyaprakash_2 (7116)
• India
1 Jan 13
Hi friend, sad to hear about this, it is really hard to deal with this kind of arrogant neighbors, as you mentioned she married a politician and have social status, better to keep distance from this kind of persons
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@Cutie18f (9551)
• Philippines
1 Jan 13
At 85, that fall could be very bad for her. She could be bed-ridden at the very least because our bones get brittle at this age. I do not blame you for feeling the way you do since this woman had caused you a lot of heartache in the past. I can understand your not feeling any sympathy for her. I would have felt the same way under such a circumstance.
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
17 Jan 13
to m e a neighbor is always a neighbor and to blame her for every unhappy thing that happened to you well I am 85 and I ha ve never been mean to anyone so I wo uld hate to think nobody cared if I was ill or injured. she is your neighbor and she is elderly and not well so just have a little compassion. you seem to not see an y shade just good or bad and nothing in between. thats not good as yhou will n e ver be happy that w a y.so yes have compassion as one day young woman you will be old too don't think yo will not and yo may break your hip too.anyway why did your kitties have t o use here your when they are housecats with a litter box surely.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
18 Jan 13
No, I'm sorry but 'a neighbor isn't always a neighbor', if you were in my position or if you could put yourself in my position you would do the same and feel the same. What if she would have murdered a child of yours? Same thing? I think not. I'm a person who forgives tooo easily in real life and that has backfired on me, cause I get the same crap thrown at me literally from them. I never said I blamed her for every unhappy thing that ever happened to me. Where did you get that from?
I'm not even comparing it to when I get old and/or if I ever break my hip. That is irrellevant. She got the help she needed, we were not home when it happened or didn't hear it at all. She lead a long and happy life after my cats were given away. I have no idea where or who my cats got into the hands of, they could have been abused for years for all I know, all because of her and her hatefulness of cats.
@911Ricki (13588)
• Canada
2 Jan 13
Your poor father, and it's not his fault either. But then again he didn't say anything to her either.
Maybe, she is just lonely. Was she ever married, or had kids?.
This guy down the street, is always nasty. His wife left him years ago because he drank, his don't nother with him. He order mail order brides, and they all leave him.2 people like this
@ZoeJoy (1392)
• United States
1 Jan 13
She is a human being. Perhaps if someone showed her some kindness, it might warm her heart. If we were all mean to mean people, what kind of world would this be?
This Christmas I gave a small gift to someone I know who is an older woman. She has to still work, even though she is almost 70 years old. She is tired all the time and sometimes, very negative and complaining. She has a good heart underneath it but I do feel sorry that she can't afford to stop working at her age. So, by giving her a small Christmas gift cheered me up, so that I am not focused on her complaining.
So, showing a little kindness to someone is indeed doing a good deed. It will do you some good. Focus on the good and do good to others anyways. Doing good to others will come back to you.
@NailTech (6874)
• United States
1 Jan 13
Did you read my previous answer above? There has never been a reason to show her kindness. She has never showed me or my family kindness. Uhm, especially after I lost a whole litter of my babies?? One of the cats has some defects which I'm sure would have been hard to adopt him out especially in those times of many years ago, and the other one had this special talent of leaping from my dresser to my shoulder, etc. You are kidding right? I show kindness to those who are kind, not mean to me. I'm not mean to her, I just chose to avoid her. Her son is even living there right now in her house, so when she returns home I know she will have some sort of help.
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