Hey all. We’ve got a buttload of emails, and many of them are from thoroughly pissed Clarksville residents. I’m not saying there’s no reason to be upset; life in C’ville will drive you mad if you aren’t careful, so letting off steam via typing is as good an idea as any. Let’s see what you’ve got to say:

Gas and Water Dept Complaint



Drowning in water fees...and fat.

From: Ms. S

This is the second long-time G&W customer that I have heard this has happened to this week. The first woman said she dropped her payment in the drop box outside on Friday night and because it wasn’t in the box by 4:30 Friday afternoon, they cut it off Monday–and she’s a daycare provider. Both were told they needed to pay a $50 reconnect fee and a $150 deposit before they would cut their gas back on. Anyway, this is what a friend of mine said today on facebook:

I AM PISSED!!! I woke up this morning to find that I have no gas or water!!! I paid my bill online, like every other month, but apparently they did not receive it!!! When I paid a statement came up that my payment had been received. There was no conformation # there never is. This has never happened before. I called and was told that I now have to pay a $50 reconnect fee and a $150 deposit!!!

Wow, bad online payments systems don’t effect just CDE do they? Maybe we should just go back to a barter system. I’ll trade you 3 used baby strollers and a lightly soiled queen-sized mattress from CYS for 3 months of water. Whaddya’ say!?

Leaf-Chronicle Article



I WRITE ON PAPER.

From: Ms. A
Subject: Leaf-Chronicle Article

Message Body:
http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20110414/NEWS01/110414019/Baby-sitter-charged-leaving-4-year-old-5-year-old-alone?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

Not only is the subject matter typical Clarksville (not what you think of as a baby sitter in civilized society) the article also is entertaining because of the so called writer’s unconventional use of English grammar and spelling.
Especially the sentence with ” suppose to be” is quite fetching in its stupidity. Apparently there is no grown up to check them after hours over at the Leaf
All in all, typical Crapsville stuff.
Your site rocks!

First of all, thanks for the love. Second, how’s she suppose to talk? If I had a dime for every time a child was neglected while the adult went out to get high/drunk/Krystal hamburgers, I’d retire and move to Smyrna.

Paying Taxes



From: Dr. G.
Subject: Can’t even pay your taxes in Clarksville

Message Body:
Here’s my WTF moment for this pisshole of a town. After busting my hump all day at work only to get off and rush to the local United States Post Office here in Clarksville WTF do I see on the door? A cheap paper sign informing me that if it was after 6pm and you needed your tax return post marked with today’s date go to Nashville! That’s it!!! When every friggin dump poke town has extended hours on this special day when so many of us get to bend over and get screwed by our own government to pay for those billion dollar bailout plans and to keep sending the same in freeloading welfare cases while I work 60+ hours a week at 2 jobs just so that I can get slammed with an extra $3,500 tax bill ontop of my regular taxes just for not having my hand out and then good old Clarksville adds insult to injury. So after driving all over hell and back after a long day at work, a trip to the bank for a $3,500 loan to pay the good ol USA of “screw you long time”, you might wonder why it took me so long to get to the “right” post office? It seems Clarksville couldn’t afford to put on their cheap ass paper sign the location or address where in Nashville one needed to go to get their taxes post marked. If I lived in Nashville I might have known where but I live in CRAPSville, TN!! So I got the privledge of doing a late night sightseeing tour of Nashville when all I wanted by then was the largest bottle of whisky I could get my hands on and drink my troubles aways. FML, Clarksville, thank you soooooooo much for being the shit hole we’ve all come to count on. At least in that you are always consistent.

Yikes, that’s a rough story…but hopefully you had a moment to appreciate some of the fun things to do in Nashville? Sorry, just trying to find a bright side. I guess the post office wasn’t in the mood to stay late as an all new Dancing With the Stars was on.
Also, that’s 2 emails with “Crapsville” as the city descriptor. Do I see a fancy new t-shirt or slogan for our fair city?

Anyway, thank you Clarksville for venting your frustrations. I don’t feed off of your misery. But I do feel like I’m not alone in my level of pissed-offedness.