Story time..... With
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After high school, I started hanging out at the Eddie's Auto in Fountain City. (There was another Eddie's Auto on Hwy 33 in Maynardville but I'm still not 100% sure which one John Bean called.) Anyways, the Eddie in Fountain City was hilarious. I'd go in and sit at the counter and watch him interact with the public and his buddies. We talked quite a bit, after he got used to me hanging around. I went in one day and he had a table leg with an 8 ball screwed to the top of it laying on the counter. I asked him if he had some trouble come in and he said "PJ Clapp and his smart 🫏 buddies were in there aggravating him". He said "one of them was acting like a Russian wanting to get gas from him and he wouldn't leave, so I bout knocked his teeth out." (He used a lot more colorful language). Eddie said "after I got him out of here, Clapp came in laughing and told me they were going to put me on TV". I said "do you know PJ Clapp?" and he said "yeah, I know his daddy and he ain't got no sense either." "They bought up about all my t-shirts and left".
*PJ Clapp is Johnny Knoxville. I had just missed them filming for an episode of Jack***.
I found this in the back of my closet the other day...
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I bought a few shirts from Eddie while I was hanging out there but he gave me this one. I wish I would have got him to sign it. He was one of Knoxville's finest.