Injury Settlement

We’ve all had at least one neighbor that has brought up hours and hours of entertainment. I had one such neighbor a long time ago, and I often wonder what happened to him. He never worked, but he had five TVs running in his house all the time. He had a computer he would let me use on occasion to update my resume or something similar, but he would get visitors and shoo me out of his apartment like it was some big mystery. I really didn’t want to know. I always wondered how he paid for living, and one day he finally told me that he was living off of an injury settlement.

He was a bike messenger in the city, and had one day ran over a steel rod that was sticking up out of the road. Apparently, the city had to pay for it. I’m not sure how much he got for it, but he hadn’t worked in a very long time. The entire thing made me uneasy anyway, as I think what happened said a lot about him. He rode his bike through a construction area where he was not supposed to be, and then he got hurt. He got his injury settlement, but I really don’t understand why. I guess there are always those looking for an easy ride.

What bothered me even more was when he admitted that the money from his injury settlement was running out, and he needed to find more money. I noticed that he didn’t say anything about a job, or about earning money; he said that he had to find money. I could tell that he was talking about a way to get another injury settlement, and I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. I struggled day in and day out working at a crappy job, and he was looking for a way to cheat the system yet again.

Right before we moved away, he had an accident with the lawnmower in the back yard. He had been mowing and somehow cut off two of his toes. Our discussion about an injury settlement went through my mind, and I wondered if it was an accident at all. I moved away shortly thereafter, so I’m not sure if he tried to get an injury settlement out of our landlords or not. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if he didn’t at least try. If that didn’t work out, he may have found another way. Had he put all that thought and energy into a job or career, he wouldn’t need to sue everyone.

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