Sammy Hall is always asking if I’ve heard how George Corker is doing.

Then he’ll tell me about the two of them washing out some red grease rags with gasoline at Dale Corker’s Mobil Station. Then they took them across the street to TQ Brown’s Laundromat and put them in a dryer. When those gasoline fumes made it to the pilot light, it blew the front windows out of the place.

No matter how many times he tells me that story, I always laugh. I remember it actually happening.