My neighbours - again

[Pebbles16]

So following on from the cat story last week, I have another neighbour calling emergency services again.
My NDN is not elderly (early 70s) but very sheltered life, never had a partner nor a job. Looked after her Mum until about 10 years ago. Just as background.
She recently got a smartphone because she wanted the NHS app so I helped her set it up...
Today, we've had a total service blip (my phone isn't working either). She comes round in a total panic. We'll call her Sandra (because that's her name).
Sandra: My phone isn't working
Me: No, mine isn't either, there's a network problem
S: But, what about an emergency
Me: You have your landline and your mobile will always work in an emergency (showed her on the screen)

Off she goes. Twenty minutes later I have a blues and twos ambulance knocking on my door.

She just wanted to "test it" and didn't want to identify herself to the emergency services.

I give up.

You try to be a good neighbour. Is it the weather? Am I currently living in a south west London vortex of crazy?

🤭

Oh dear. On a serious note, perhaps contact family or if there isn’t any, adult social services as it sounds like there could be something like early stages of dementia going on there? Sounds very familiar, sadly.

@ButteredRadish She's been as mad as a box of frogs in the 20 years we have lived here - she happily tralaas (that's meant to be a sort of singing) that she's "bonkers". It's not anything new but I am on alert. No family.

BTW, I LOVE a buttered radish, springing out of the garden and getting slathered every day!