Bogey Mandy from the Ground Floor

How many times have we judged someone based on their first impression? This story highlights how fear or loneliness might manifest as snarkiness or teasing. It teaches respect for the elderly and emphasises the value of maintaining positive relationships with neighbours. Who knows, perhaps after reading it, your neighbour, who has previously evoked mixed feelings in you, will suddenly become a friend?

Summer. Time for waffles, ice cream, playing outside, and sleeping until late. Who doesn’t like holidays?! Kate is happy, but there is only one small problem: a barking monster named Fly, that hardly looks like a dog. It is followed by Bogey Mandy, the neighbor that all the kids are afraid of. Everyone avoids her, especially Kate and Lucas. They knew perfectly well that if they did not want to expose themselves to Miss Mandy, they shoud keep quite. She also didn’t like when the children made noise in the stairwell or played hide-and-seek under the windows of her apartment.

Despite previous misunderstandings, she was able to rely on her neighbours for assistance when she became seriously ill. It quickly became clear that a moment of conversation is enough to find out how true the proverb „The devil is not so black as he is painted.” is!