BEWARE losing your keys if you live in sheltered accommodation.
My mother walked 50 yards to her flat having attended a bingo session in the communal lounge of her sheltered accommodation.
Unfortunately, on her way there she stopped for a short while to get her breath (she walks with a stick or a zimmer). She put her keys on the table.
After the bingo session, and on returning to her flat, she was unable to get in and remembered tha
t she had left them on the table.
When she returned to collect them, they had disappeared and the warden had to let her in.
Because she was frightened for her safety – not knowing where the keys were – I advised her to have the barrel of the lock changed.
My son would have changed it but unfortunately he could not as it was council property.
It cost £92.65 to change the lock.
When I challenged this cost, I was told that this was the contractor's charge to the council.
I do question the capability of the council representative who negotiates such a price as that for changing the barrel of a lock.
In this case my mother, an old-aged pensioner of 88, has had to pay.
Presumably, there are quite a number of jobs that are done with inflated prices and the general ratepayer bears the cost.
Is this why there is not sufficient for essential services?
It is a pity that the town council see my mother as worthy of exploitation whilst I see her as a disabled 88-year-old pensioner who needs the support of not only her family but of the community as well.
Concerned daughter
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