Ottensen said:

SeventeenDayze said:

Damn, what part of "what do you guys think?" did you all seem to just blow over? I asked precisely for this reason because I didn't want to feel like I was judging....

Serious didn't blow over anything, she just answered your question "what do you guys think?" by answering she agrees about giving your neighbor "the benefit of the doubt" based on personal experience she has knowing someone with a condition that allows them to walk fine on some days, and not so well on others. Same thing with Vendetta

Thank you!

SeventeenDayze said:

The person in my building upstairs directly above me walks around with a cane and says she's suffering from a few different illnesses, etc. She gets disability and basically stays at home all day and smokes and watches TV. I smell the smoke and hear the TV through my walls. Anyway, one thing I don't understand is that when I see her out in the street, she always seems to struggle walking, seems like she's in pain, etc. But, here in the building, I hear her walking around upstairs and it sounds like she's walking around back and forth with no problem! One time, there was a maintenance issue in my unit and she came downstairs and into my unit. As soon as I opened the door, she very easily walked around, no cane and didn't miss a beat! WTF!

Am I missing something? She lives alone and sometimes has her sister visit but I work from home and I'm hear a lot and know her routine pretty well. I'm starting to think this lady is possibly scamming for a disability check. Not sure, but I'm not gonna report it or anything.

I just wonder what you guys think? I'm really sick of hearing her stomp around all freakin' day above my head (I wanted to move to the top floor but the units are all taken).

to SCAM the gov. one does not have to continue an act of such proportions too long

so it's not for the check

she lives above you,

so it's not for the best spot in the blg.

so i would go with the part where most of the time she stays in motion

to eleviate the constant pain one feels from bein idle too long.

if your'e a non smoker and you can smell her smokin, THIS may atribute to your

dislike or suspission of her and her activities as it has to be a bother smellin

cigs all day while tryin to concentrate on whutever it is you do.

then too, you may be at that age 25-35 where ones mental makeup tends to move

toward a certain type of paranoia that isn't really evedent until after you go out and

slaughtr everyone in a bar

just sayin

SeventeenDayze said:

The person in my building upstairs directly above me walks around with a cane and says she's suffering from a few different illnesses, etc. She gets disability and basically stays at home all day and smokes and watches TV. I smell the smoke and hear the TV through my walls. Anyway, one thing I don't understand is that when I see her out in the street, she always seems to struggle walking, seems like she's in pain, etc. But, here in the building, I hear her walking around upstairs and it sounds like she's walking around back and forth with no problem! One time, there was a maintenance issue in my unit and she came downstairs and into my unit. As soon as I opened the door, she very easily walked around, no cane and didn't miss a beat! WTF!

Am I missing something? She lives alone and sometimes has her sister visit but I work from home and I'm hear a lot and know her routine pretty well. I'm starting to think this lady is possibly scamming for a disability check. Not sure, but I'm not gonna report it or anything.

I just wonder what you guys think? I'm really sick of hearing her stomp around all freakin' day above my head (I wanted to move to the top floor but the units are all taken).

Isn't your last sentence the real problem? Seems to me you're just annoyed with the situation and try to find something on her.

robertlove said:

SeventeenDayze said:

The person in my building upstairs directly above me walks around with a cane and says she's suffering from a few different illnesses, etc. She gets disability and basically stays at home all day and smokes and watches TV. I smell the smoke and hear the TV through my walls. Anyway, one thing I don't understand is that when I see her out in the street, she always seems to struggle walking, seems like she's in pain, etc. But, here in the building, I hear her walking around upstairs and it sounds like she's walking around back and forth with no problem! One time, there was a maintenance issue in my unit and she came downstairs and into my unit. As soon as I opened the door, she very easily walked around, no cane and didn't miss a beat! WTF!

Am I missing something? She lives alone and sometimes has her sister visit but I work from home and I'm hear a lot and know her routine pretty well. I'm starting to think this lady is possibly scamming for a disability check. Not sure, but I'm not gonna report it or anything.

I just wonder what you guys think? I'm really sick of hearing her stomp around all freakin' day above my head (I wanted to move to the top floor but the units are all taken).

Isn't your last sentence the real problem? Seems to me you're just annoyed with the situation and try to find something on her.

Hey there, haven't seen you around GD for a while! Oh, and yes to your post

Ottensen said:

robertlove said:

Isn't your last sentence the real problem? Seems to me you're just annoyed with the situation and try to find something on her.

Hey there, haven't seen you around GD for a while! Oh, and yes to your post

I usually read some stuff, but sometimes i just got to react

nice of you to notice

BlackAdder7 said:

I'm surprised the rental agreement doesn't call for the floors to be covered 80% by carpeting or rugs. Check your own lease to see what it says, and complain to the landlord if in fact the floors are suPposed to be covered. That might provide some noise relief. As far as the disability claim, I feel that as a society we must all abide by rules in order to maintain our civility. The question is if thi neighbor is faking injury how does it affect you. Are you resentful of the noise or concerned about the potential fraud. If its the fraud I'm sure the is a governmental agency you can contact and express your concerns to and they will hopefully investigate. If your neighbor is committing a fraud it impacts us all by depleting the established system of $$ that should go to someone who really needs it,and it happens all the time. There are monthly news articles about disability scams,doctors who pay people to fake injury such that the doctors bill for phony procedures etc.

in recent years there have been MAJOR breakouts (esspeacially in larege cities) of bedbugs which

also can infest one carpets. once there has been an infestation, whole complexes have been known

to start strippin the entire complex of carpet do to 'community unity' (visitin your neighbor)

so this may be an issue there

I can't comment on your neighbor...

...but the dad of one of my son's classmates got run over by a truck at work. Serious injury. Sued for megadollars of course.

For years he walked around with a cane, struggling to get by.

The minute that the lawsuit was settled and he cashed the check, he got rid of the cane and bought himself a boat.

BlackAdder7 said:

I'm surprised the rental agreement doesn't call for the floors to be covered 80% by carpeting or rugs. Check your own lease to see what it says, and complain to the landlord if in fact the floors are suPposed to be covered. That might provide some noise relief. As far as the disability claim, I feel that as a society we must all abide by rules in order to maintain our civility. The question is if thi neighbor is faking injury how does it affect you. Are you resentful of the noise or concerned about the potential fraud. If its the fraud I'm sure the is a governmental agency you can contact and express your concerns to and they will hopefully investigate. If your neighbor is committing a fraud it impacts us all by depleting the established system of $$ that should go to someone who really needs it,and it happens all the time. There are monthly news articles about disability scams,doctors who pay people to fake injury such that the doctors bill for phony procedures etc.

Insofar as the floors, in many buildings here in Germany, and I can also site instances in the certain places in the US, where certain building fall under a specific type of architecture protected by law and having wooden floors are not only normal, but crucial to preserving their architectural integrity. I personally haven't lived in a flat without wooden floors for 20 years, and have no problem with traveling sounds from footsteps, as clearly is also the case with the neighbors I've met who choose to live in such buildings. It's just what happens if you have wooden floors I will admit though, I've also been incredibly lucky over the last 2 decades and have always lived in apartment buildings/condos that were extraordinarily close knit, almost like family communities. With this, people were always considerate of how whatever noise they made affected their neighbors, and if there was ever an issue, it could always be cleared up with a visit & request, accompanied by food or a few laughs over a glass of wine. It always astonishes me that ij most cases that's not the way it works generally, and people always have to go for the hard guy approach

What are you (OP) doing home in the middle of the day? Are you hustling?

Turn her in to the authorities. If she's innocent, she has nothing to worry about.

(This is actually the mindset of so many people that it's frightening.)

there is so much going on in this world that could otherwise use ones attention, rather than speculating if someone is faking an illness.

if the women is faking, her karma will catch up with her. why should this issue matter to you?

RodeoSchro said:

Turn her in to the authorities. If she's innocent, she has nothing to worry about.

(This is actually the mindset of so many people that it's frightening.)

yep, and it worked many times

robertlove said:

RodeoSchro said:

Turn her in to the authorities. If she's innocent, she has nothing to worry about.

(This is actually the mindset of so many people that it's frightening.)

yep, and it worked many times

it's the same as thinkin "call the cops, if they innocent whut's the worry"

the prollum is the hoops one has to jump through to prove their 'rightness'

if folks are worried about waistin money, this is a pefectly waistful

exspeniture of funds... WOW

SeventeenDayze said:

Vendetta1 said:

I have arthritis in both hips and my spine. Some days I walk with a cane, others I am perfectly fine without it.

1. Give your neighbor the benefit of the doubt.

2. Mind your own business.

Why do you stalk me on these threads so much with your venom?

free2bfreeda said:

there is so much going on in this world that could otherwise use ones attention, rather than speculating if someone is faking an illness.

if the women is faking, her karma will catch up with her. why should this issue matter to you?

agreed.

free2bfreeda said:

there is so much going on in this world that could otherwise use ones attention, rather than speculating if someone is faking an illness.

if the women is faking, her karma will catch up with her. why should this issue matter to you?

who do you think is paying the disability?

you.

BlackAdder7 said:

free2bfreeda said:

there is so much going on in this world that could otherwise use ones attention, rather than speculating if someone is faking an illness.

if the women is faking, her karma will catch up with her. why should this issue matter to you?

who do you think is paying the disability?

you.

go figure .0001 cent out of my weekly income. i can handle it. like i said there's so much going on in this world until this one woman who is alledgedly ripping off the system will be caught up with sooner or later if she's a fake. also, it may be that her medical ailment is psychological and or psychiatric, which can prevent her from being employed. and if she's walking constantly this is one of the major signs of mental instability.

[Edited 3/26/12 15:02pm]

Serious said:

Ottensen said:

Serious didn't blow over anything, she just answered your question "what do you guys think?" by answering she agrees about giving your neighbor "the benefit of the doubt" based on personal experience she has knowing someone with a condition that allows them to walk fine on some days, and not so well on others. Same thing with Vendetta

Thank you!

i have read the thread and totally agree with all parties here.... I myself suffer with arthritis in my back,legs, and hips and it isnt a easy task working 12 hour shifts on top of it ....there are days i can walk fine but other days the weather yes i said the weather affects such illnesses... cause of the barametric pressure in the air affect alot in our human bodies...alot of other things can cause us to not feel well....smoking is a factor as well cause the smoke deprives the body of many things and harms the body as well...on many days when said neighbor is resting she maybe just doing that around her home to get ready fo r her outing the next day( i know many elderly people that do this)and on said days when u see her out and about that is when she is most active and she was rested up fo r next day sh ehas to do things... never know she could of already told her doc she smokes( hell docs can tell if u do or not) .. imho leave the poor woman be she prolly already did her working yrs and in retirement already...who know sh eis alrady PAID the retirment things like SSI for ppl before her now it our turn to support them its a circle.... im paying for my moms SSI an d retirment things when my daughter grows and such it sher turn to do that thing s dont always have to be aimed at mental or physical disability

SeventeenDayze said:

The person in my building upstairs directly above me walks around with a cane and says she's suffering from a few different illnesses, etc. She gets disability and basically stays at home all day and smokes and watches TV. I smell the smoke and hear the TV through my walls. Anyway, one thing I don't understand is that when I see her out in the street, she always seems to struggle walking, seems like she's in pain, etc. But, here in the building, I hear her walking around upstairs and it sounds like she's walking around back and forth with no problem! One time, there was a maintenance issue in my unit and she came downstairs and into my unit. As soon as I opened the door, she very easily walked around, no cane and didn't miss a beat! WTF!

Am I missing something? She lives alone and sometimes has her sister visit but I work from home and I'm hear a lot and know her routine pretty well. I'm starting to think this lady is possibly scamming for a disability check. Not sure, but I'm not gonna report it or anything.

I just wonder what you guys think? I'm really sick of hearing her stomp around all freakin' day above my head (I wanted to move to the top floor but the units are all taken).

i once lived in a place like that. find an upper unit in another building and ^it will all be moot.

she can hustle or not hustle all she likes and you'll be doing your thing much more happily elsewhere

PurpleJedi said:

I can't comment on your neighbor...

...but the dad of one of my son's classmates got run over by a truck at work. Serious injury. Sued for megadollars of course.

For years he walked around with a cane, struggling to get by.

The minute that the lawsuit was settled and he cashed the check, he got rid of the cane and bought himself a boat.

oh heck yeah. i once worked on a file where the guy was claiming total disability for his back injury. so we hired a PI to spy on him and obtained photos of mr disability helping his friend move a refrigerator. no limp, no nothing... tons of people try to scam SSI or workers' comp or their insurers

Ottensen said:

SeventeenDayze said:

Damn, what part of "what do you guys think?" did you all seem to just blow over? I asked precisely for this reason because I didn't want to feel like I was judging....

Serious didn't blow over anything, she just answered your question "what do you guys think?" by answering she agrees about giving your neighbor "the benefit of the doubt" based on personal experience she has knowing someone with a condition that allows them to walk fine on some days, and not so well on others. Same thing with Vendetta

toots said:

Serious said:

Thank you!

i have read the thread and totally agree with all parties here.... I myself suffer with arthritis in my back,legs, and hips and it isnt a easy task working 12 hour shifts on top of it ....there are days i can walk fine but other days the weather yes i said the weather affects such illnesses... cause of the barametric pressure in the air affect alot in our human bodies...alot of other things can cause us to not feel well....smoking is a factor as well cause the smoke deprives the body of many things and harms the body as well...on many days when said neighbor is resting she maybe just doing that around her home to get ready fo r her outing the next day( i know many elderly people that do this)and on said days when u see her out and about that is when she is most active and she was rested up fo r next day sh ehas to do things... never know she could of already told her doc she smokes( hell docs can tell if u do or not) .. imho leave the poor woman be she prolly already did her working yrs and in retirement already...who know sh eis alrady PAID the retirment things like SSI for ppl before her now it our turn to support them its a circle.... im paying for my moms SSI an d retirment things when my daughter grows and such it sher turn to do that thing s dont always have to be aimed at mental or physical disability

ALSO... the OP assumes she is on disability (SSI) this woman may be on an early retirement pension like my mom is.

I myself am at home during the days and NOT on any welfare, but since I am hispanic single mom and in a rent control unit people ASSUME I am on some sort of government assistance. I am NOT. I also pay through the nose for health care.

Anywho... about assuming shit... is she on anti-depression meds? Bi-polar? Diabetic? Receiving a pension?

You do NOT know... if you want to know why don't you ask her straight out... since you need to know.

Otherwise just

TheDigitalGardener said:

1. Ask the bitch to turn down her tv.

2. Tell the bitch to open a window and let the smoke out.

3. The rest is none of your business.

[Edited 3/27/12 6:47am]

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