Thursday, January 7, 2010

Cedar Hill Park: A Review (Warning--Contains Human Feces)

Posted by Betsy Phillips on Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:16 AM

In Short:
click to enlarge Cedar Hill Park has a nice sports facility and lots of parking.
  • Cedar Hill Park has a nice sports facility and lots of parking.
Location: The corner of Old Hickory Boulevard and Dickerson Pike Crowds: Minimal Approximate Age of Patrons: Mid-30s to mid-40s Topics of Conversation: Is That Creepy Guy in the Van Driving By Again? and What Kind of Asshole Poops Next to a Toilet?! Stray Dogs Seen: None Types of Vehicles in Parking Lots: Pickup trucks, creepy van, sedans Perceived Safety: Low to middling, but a lot of the blame for that falls on the creepy van. Number of Gunshots Heard: None Dog Friendliness: High. There's a nice loop to walk around and lots of grass for dogs to run in. No poop bags are provided, but there's plenty of goose poop for your dog to sniff at and then snack on when she thinks you're not looking. Number of pitbulls sighted: One (mine). Accessibility: Pretty good, depending on what you're using the park for. There are lots of places to sit, good parking near playgrounds and the ballparks, but a kid with accessibility issues might have trouble with the playground equipment. Incorporation of Local History: None that I saw. Recommended patrons: This time of year, people who enjoy meeting people who park their trucks at the far ends of secluded parking lots and/or who enjoy wondering at what point littering should be a floggable offense. Other times of the year, people who like outdoor sports and people who like to watch people playing outdoor sports.
click to enlarge In the background, playground facilities and lovely hills. In the foreground, someone left their partially used 12-pack of grape pop.
  • In the background, playground facilities and lovely hills. In the foreground, someone left their partially used 12-pack of grape pop.
I like Cedar Hill Park a lot. This is a park my brother has played ball at and a park that is very family-friendly and conveniently located near a Sonic, which makes it a great place to eat any ice cream procured at said Sonic, especially while watching a softball game. The loop is easy to walk, but has a nice little incline, so you feel like you've moved around some. And the whole place is quite lovely. There was a creepy guy in a cream-colored van who slowly made his way in and out of every parking lot and a couple of guys parked way at the far ends of the more secluded parking lots in their pickup trucks. (Gentlemen, you're not fooling anyone. Come out and have illicit sex indoors like a grown-up. Truly, your back will thank you. And, seriously, if you wonder why you can't meet a nice guy, it's because nice guys don't fuck deeply closeted men who are skipping church to hook up in our community parks.) But the true problem with the park is not the men in dire need of relationship advice, it's
click to enlarge Yes I did take a picture of it and no, it's not something you can unsee.
  • Yes I did take a picture of it and no, it's not something you can unsee.
the people who seem to use the park as their personal litter box. I have been to a lot of parks in town and I have never seen anything like I saw at Cedar Hill Park. Everywhere I looked, there was garbage, just thrown on the ground--papers and plastic bags in the woods, an open 12-pack of pop in a ditch, etc. Some of the bathrooms were closed due to vandalism (according to the sign on them)--which was completely unsurprising because, in the first portapotty I opened, someone had left an actual human turd on the floor. You read that correctly--right next to the toilet, as a giant "fuck you" to everyone who came after the phantom shitter. "Ha ha, you have to look at my poop," such a turd says...except to the poor sap sent there with a mop. To him, the turd says, "Ha ha, your job really sucks, because you have to clean up the poop of a person too damn lazy or evil to bother using the toilet, which is right there." People, this is beyond the realm of anything you can expect Metro Parks to keep a handle on. Unless they're going to have a police officer in every park monitoring us all so that people don't abuse our parks and ruin them for the rest of us, it is up to us to behave like we have been potty-trained and know how to use a garbage can. And I am a little sad a person has to say that out loud. Cedar Hill Park is a lovely park and it deserves better than to look like the floor of a frat house after a four-day party.

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Well I thought YOU and your psychodog were pretty creepy, so what do you think of that?

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Posted by Creepy guy in van on 01/07/2010 at 8:02 AM

Thank god. I was hoping that standing on one foot and sniffing my arm pit every time you drove by would creep you out enough to leave me alone.
Glad to know it worked.

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Posted by Aunt B. on 01/07/2010 at 8:06 AM

What the hell is "pop"?

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Posted by JR on 01/07/2010 at 8:40 AM

whenever i'd comment on how screwed up the world is, my grand-mother would correct me by saying: "it's not the world, it's the people in it."

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Posted by wilson on 01/07/2010 at 8:40 AM

The worst thing at Cedar Hill is Phillips' pit bull. One pit bull is one too many.

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Posted by john on 01/07/2010 at 8:59 AM

I don't know anything about the poo, trash, or the creepy van, but Cedar Hill has a pretty decent Disc Golf course. And a little known secret is that the gas station nearby also sells discs, so if you happen to lose one in the trees, you can pick up a spare there.

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Posted by Sally on 01/07/2010 at 9:16 AM

uh oh, john. now you've done it. gird your loins.

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Posted by uh oh on 01/07/2010 at 9:33 AM

Just for the record the slide there is awesome! It's a good way to cheer yourself up after a bad round of disc golf.

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Posted by Thomas on 01/07/2010 at 10:05 AM

uh oh, I'm ready. Do you think Betsy Phillips carries a gun, too?

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Posted by john on 01/07/2010 at 10:21 AM

I don't know. Did she make any threatening moves toward your van?

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Posted by mr. pink on 01/07/2010 at 11:07 AM

Correction on the gas station with discs, that is a different park, not Cedar Hill. But as Thomas says, there still is a really good disc golf course there as well.

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Posted by Sally on 01/07/2010 at 11:11 AM

"Cedar Hill Park is a lovely park and it deserves better than to look like the floor of a frat house after a four-day party."
Attended lots of frat parties at Cornell in my youth. Since moving to Nash, also have observed some more or less artistic trashing going on over around the Branscom Quad area on weekends of particular celebrations.
I would submit that the Cedar Hill trashing is as dissimilar to a Vanderbilt frat party as Roller Derby is to NASCAR. Both of them go round and round, but there the similarity ends. Cedar Hill gets trashed because of social decadence. Vanderbilt frats get trashed for the same reason a toddler knocks down building blocks.

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Posted by W D Humpfree on 01/07/2010 at 11:19 AM

Oh, good lord, you perverts. I'm not going to do anything to john that's going to require him to prepare his loins ahead of time, at least not before meeting him once, which will be quite difficult as he runs screaming in terror from my poor old dog.
No need to speculate salaciously.

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Posted by Aunt B. on 01/07/2010 at 11:40 AM

"left an actual human turd on the floor."
Try visiting Canada sometime. They don't piss on toilet seats or shit on the floor up there.
Our US social journey seems to be on an out of control down-hill slide. And soon, our ever growing uncivil cadre of nest shitters could trash us back to climbing out of their filth and dwelling in trees. What goes around, comes around. Good God!

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Posted by Electric Larry on 01/07/2010 at 11:41 AM

mr. pink, I do not own a van and resent the implication of your post. What bothers me also is you think I would own a van.
W D, when I was at Vanderbilt we had a house boy that cleaned up the fraternity house after such events. Those were better days.

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Posted by john on 01/07/2010 at 11:43 AM

Try visiting Canada sometime. They don't piss on toilet seats or shit on the floor up there.
Chalk one up for socialized medicine.

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Posted by mr. pink on 01/07/2010 at 11:44 AM

mr. pink, I do not own a van and resent the implication of your post. What bothers me also is you think I would own a van.
Sorry. I'm sure you were just visiting.

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Posted by mr. pink on 01/07/2010 at 11:46 AM

"there's plenty of goose poop for your dog to sniff at and then snack on when she thinks you're not looking."
Aunty B, I just love it that you have your senses about you enough to recognize your 'dawg's' nature. Restores my faith in human nature, sort of.
We used to say, about something particularly raunchy, that it was "enough to gag a dog off a gut cart." Right. Truth is: when my 'dawg's' dinner was served, and the Alpo was set down next to a pile of horse apples, it was anybody's guess as to which one old Fido went for first--sort of his personal selection of meal courses. Sometimes he went for desert first.

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Posted by Sam Cynic on 01/07/2010 at 11:57 AM

Pit bulls! Mine does the same thing. We have parrots, and their leavings are like truffles for my dog. Cat poo too, but I can't abide that so the litter box is sequestered. I saw John getting out of a van at Shelby Bottoms, but it wasn't his.

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Posted by burrito on 01/07/2010 at 12:50 PM

Well, I'm busted, but when I saw the pit bull killing this little girl's dog I hopped back in.

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Posted by john on 01/07/2010 at 3:00 PM

So you're a dogfighter too, eh?

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Posted by mr. pink on 01/07/2010 at 3:11 PM

Wow, this turd is getting alot of mileage. How underwhelming. BTW World, I'm an American. Sorry bout that.

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Posted by Tom on 01/07/2010 at 9:47 PM

Let me take a moment and acknowledge to Aunt B.: This post is good shit (figuratively, of course). News I can use. And that makes me laugh.

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Posted by Harrison on 01/08/2010 at 6:52 AM
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