CRAZY

I promise not to post anymore about the negative things here, at least until Yuval posts a funny post. So, I have a cold, ok no big deal. I spent a couple of hours in bed this afternoon reading/napping, while Yuval made some fruit salad and cabbage salad. It is now 9:30pm and we were cleaning the floor before getting ready to go out to eat something. I am changing my clothes in our bedroom when someone starts pounding on our door. Well, we have a new neighbor who is an older man, I would say in his 60's, who told us he just made aliyah after being a lawyer in Canada for the past 25 years. He was forced to retire after his 2nd bypass surgery. Now, we open the door and he starts screaming. No introduction, just full on screaming, asking us if we are doing construction in our apartment. Now, I have been on and off sleeping for the past few hours, so if there was banging in our apartment, I didn't notice! He wouldn't even let Yuval get one word in. 2 minutes into his tirade, our other neighbor (there are 3 apartments on our floor), opens his door to see what all the ruckus is about. I am standing behind Yuval and the other neighbor is looking at me like, "is this guy insane?" Well, clearly! Anyway, so the guy continues to scream that we have been banging for 1.5 hours, and the other neighbor starts to try and diffuse the situation, saying he heard nothing, we are good neighbors, blah blah blah. Yuval did not get excited and did not yell back at this lunatic, and the guy basically yelled himself out and slammed his door. We were all left standing there in total shock. Now, this guy had knocked on our door politely a few days before to introduce himself and tell us that he had just made aliyah and that there were obstacles at every corner. If you act like a lunatic, like he did, EVERYTHING will be hard. Especially in this country, where people love to yell at each other. It also seemed clear, that he has some serious anger problems, and no wonder that he was forced to retire from his stressful lawyer job because of heart problems. This totally freaked me out, because this guy is clearly unstable. Our other neighbor said that he would talk to the landlord--but I don't really know what that will do, because this guy is just a lunatic. Anyway, hopefully, he will move out soon-these apartments are short-term, so if he is making aliyah, he's probably not staying here forever.

Love,
Sarah