bellatif's blog post - Mrs. Tinkerbell

I consider myself as an easy going person. Or at least I think so. And I get along with most people. But there is one person I always try to avoid. And that is...my neighbour. She is a lovely old lady, but she is so... Words can’t describe her. She is like 64. Has no kids, so she adopted two Chihuahua dogs. Yah, we call her mrs TINKERBELL just for that. You never see her without those dogs. Her husband is now a retired police officer and the sweetest guy ever. I wonder what married life must be with her?

So this morning, I was locking up my place. Just like I want to walk to the elevator, she opened her front door. Just wearing a robe she asked me: “ooh good morning! Could you be a dear and pick up my mail downstairs?” And I’m like: “But I’m not coming back, just going to my work”. And she replies: “No hurry, you can bring it to me when you are back from your work. Here you have the key of my mailbox”. She gives it to me, smiles and says I’m such a good girl. And goes back in closing the door. I’m still standing there with the key in my hand, just wondering what just happened.

I have no problems helping people. If I can do something, I do it. But I so know her. She didn’t ask me just so I would empty her mailbox. She wants to know something. Or just want to make my life hard. The first years I lived there, I thought she was lonely. But after all the stuff she done these last years, I can understand why people avoid her. One time she asked me of her window washer should do my windows too. Seeing I’m so often abroad, and I don’t have much time. It would be a good idea to have someone who does the cleaning. And the way she said it was like: “you need to do your windows”. And my windows never are real dirty. But I don’t wash them like every week. So that are the things that drive my crazy. The comments she says.

I always smile, try not to say something. Never know how she trained her two Chihuahua dogs! But I have a feeling that one day I will just strangle her. Or just buy a cat and drop it in front of her with her two dogs! But that’s not me, I’m a humanist.

I know I shouldn’t, but she can make me feel so frustrated. I’m almost sneaking out each day, but for some reasons she always knows how to catch me. I think she is probably spying on me.

So now I’m thinking what she will tell me tonight. What’s on her mind? Maybe I made to much noise yesterday night while I was playing. But this time it was a LOVE SONG, no hardcore music. It will be something that I will not like. But yah, she is my neighbour, so I will smile once again. Or attack her with my brandnew nails.