So, I'm a writer. Back in the day I interviewed writer Jim Dent author of the "Junction Boys" as I did a three or four day stint in the Williamson County jail. It was a hoot. I was in for a minor infraction and Jim was in for a solid 10 years. But I got to interview him, as a writer, as a journalist, as a cellmate.
Jim didn't like many others in the jail. It was obvious. But for the short time I was there, he liked me. We were writers.
He told me about a time he met Jerry at a bar. And Jerry told him, "Jim, stand up. I want to pat you down, and search you with this wand. And I want you to pat me down to make sure I'm not wearing any wires."
Then, Jim told me, Jerry bribed him to take a portion of the biography Jim had written, but not yet published, about Jerry.
Or Jerry tried to.
Jim didn't accept $100,000 from Jerry, he says.
"I wish I would have, if I would have known how my life would turn out. I could use that money," he said.
The way he told me, I know it was true, because Jim was a storyteller. But not the kind who needed to embellish facts to make for a good story.
Anyway, this story reminds me of Jim Dent.