Speakout

Stop throwing out your butts

Hello, Americans. Hello, Southeast Missouri. Hello, Miner, Sikeston. My issue is people that smoke and drive and they throw their lit cigarettes out on the street. I know most of these new cars don’t have ashtrays, but why do we have to clean up after your butts? We don’t want your butts. I don’t like smelling them. When you come down our streets here on Harrison in Miner I don’t want to have to go out there and pick up that stuff. I don’t give a darn. Keep it in your own cars. I was on Malone, going toward Sikeston. There were two of them on the phone, smoking. I guess they were driving with their knees or they were an octopus. I don’t know. Anyway, if you are going to light up put it in your own tray. We don’t want to smell that crap. Thank you. Have a good day.

Can someone help cancel telephone?

I’m 85 years old and trying to be able to live my older years with enjoyment and I don’t think that I fit in the world very well anymore. I’m trying to save money by cancelling some things that I bought in the past. I no longer have a computer to work. In order to save some money I have a telephone I’d like to stop using. So I telephoned the company about that on a Sikeston number and I was told in order to cancel my telephone I would have to leave the state of Missouri to get it done. They have a corporate office in Paducah, Ky., and in Dyersburg, Tenn. And I would have to drive mind you and that costs money for gasoline, drive there to cancel the telephone. They couldn’t do it in Sikeston. And there is also an office in Sikeston but that office is unable to cancel the service. I don’t know what to do. Is there some way some state office or some place I can telephone that could help me on this? It’s terrible if you want to cancel something that you have to make a trip out of state to pay it when they have an office in Sikeston themselves. If anyone has any information on it please respond in Speakout because I would gratefully appreciate it. Thank you.

BMU prices are too high

Yes, I would like to speak out about BMU. They prices have went up like I don’t know what. It’s unbelievable. Up on the hill I’m hearing they had three trucks just turning people’s lights off. They way you have to pay, some of these people don’t get but one check a month. Every now and then they could get help from DAEOC, but I’m seeing these people have to do without. Most of them have kids up under the hill. My daughter’s lights were shut off and she had six kids, two of them with asthma. And talking about her bill is $1,000. No. Ain’t no way in the world a single mother can pay no utility like that. A $1,000 a month. One guy she talked to said his bill was higher than that. Someone should speak on this more than I am. Cause this stuff is getting out of hand.