Reader Mail / Not Eating on Wilma Rudolph Will Kill You
Clark here. We always discuss the pain of having to eat at many of the “meh” restaurants in Clarksville. But today’s reader mail by Louis examines the other side of the coin. Like an episode of Twilight Zone, what struggles must man endure to reach food on Wilma Rudolph Blvd?
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Submitted by Louis:
So the wife and I decide to go out to dinner on a Friday night. But since we live in Clarksville we have to go at 4:30 PM so we can sneak in with the geriatrics and special need crowd.
Red Lobster is the choice since everything is the same here with a different name anyway. Of course we enter the lobby and some young kid starts giving me the once over on my name and creds like I am not worthy of eating in their establishment and finally hands me the vibrator pad which conjures some weird sex toy look and is so fricken unnecessary since I am sitting like less than 2 feet from the person who wrote down my 5 letter name and misspelled it in the process.
Thinking we have gotten in once again during senior discount time, we figure this will be a short sit and we should be in for the place looks empty. 25 minutes later I still sit there and wonder if they are out fishing on Lake Barkley trying to get the fish of the day. After 30 minutes of sitting in the entrance way, the lady who took my number and standing in my personal bubble pushes a button and my sex toy goes off. Now mind you she looks around like she has no idea who will walk up to be seated and we are the ONLY PEOPLE SITTING THERE!
We then follow some other Austin Peay student trying to pay for his used books. As I go to my table in the back of the restaurant and count 25 tables empty , I ask why the restaurant is empty and yet we had to wait; the Home Economics Major states that this is our process and how we seat people and mumbles “I don’t know…”, running away to find some adult to clue them in how to lie better.
It struck me in that moment that even when you walk into fricken McDonald’s on Wilma Rudolph you have NY style red rope operators checking a list and seeing if you are worthy for some chicken nuggets. It makes me scream “WTF Clarksville!” You have no 5 star restaurants and the grub you are serving should be something no one has to wait for. It makes me want to stay on 41-A and grab some Dodge’s Chicken and hope my veins clog and I die a fast death and get away from this pain.
I don’t know…I almost prefer Long John Silver’s to Red Lobster at this point. Plus the last time I asked for a box of “crunchies” at RL they looked at me kinda funny.
Dodge’s chicken for life!
reminds me of the last time ( ever) I went to Red Lobster ( is there any other kind?).
Said Austin Peay student or his equivalent had put an entire pitcher of ice tea on the back of the seats between booths, not a counter, mind you! Since he apparently had never heard of gravity and other laws of physics the pitcher with ice fell and soaked me down my back from top to bottom. He literally ran into the kitchen and hid there from me. The manager gave me a $ 50 gift card and was ready to pay for dry cleaning. As a final gesture of generosity we were informed that there was no charge that day! Really? Next time hire someone whose IQ is a bit higher than that of one of those pathetic lobsters in the tank out front which I believe are just for show, because they wouldn’t come back to life after you get food delivered frozen anyway.
Moral of the story ,” Can’t see the ocean, don’t eat the fish!”
Actually, there are a couple of fairly decent food establishments in Clarksville. Granted, precious few, but still some. Brunies is small but serves a good reuben or jagersnitchel. Fujiyama’s on WR blvd. next to the 101st is excellent japanese food, Freedom Deli in the Lowes/Kroger shoppingg center off WR, and the Chopping Block is pretty good eats too. It just depends really on what you are looking for. For the record, I’ve never liked Red Lobster, something is just off about their seafood.
There’s no such thing as fresh seafood in Clarksville, TN. Enough said. Why go to Red Lobster to begin with????
I disagree with the statement that everything is the same.. Yes if you’re looking to go to Chili’s or O’charley’s etc. But you’re looking at American Food restaurants. There’s plenty of Japanese, Chinese, Indian, American, fast food, etc. You have plenty to choose from.
I have never walked into a single fast food place here and been judged. I honestly don’t know what you’re talking about and how people have to look at you to not feel judged. The way this is written makes me want to scream “What the fuck is your problem?” I don’t see why you have to judge the young person who is seating you, or the girl that is taking your name. Why assume that your name is written wrong, or that it’s a student that is seating you, or that they’re trying to pay for school? So what if they do? That doesn’t make them any less competent at what they do. If you want a high standard of service go somewhere where they charge you like it, not $8 buck for a steak or lobster.
While I dont have the anger over food that the author has….there really ISNT plenty of Chinese, Indian, American, fast food….they are several of the same…we have 43 chinese buffets that all have varying degrees of being good or shitty…We have one indian restaurant, Tandoor…dont even try to count the Hookah bar cause they serve Greek gyros that suck ass, not Indian food. Japanese places…we have Kohana, and Fujiyama, both which are good…so I will leave that one alone, American – Chain steakhouses ahoy…. and Fast food….we really dont have alot of variety, we just have alot of McDonalds, Arbys, Burger Kings, subways, and Taco Bells. Luckily I work in Nashville so If I want decent food, I usually just eat there.
i have read a book aout wilma rudolph did she have sex.