The unofficial biography and anecdotes of tomjtexas. Stories are in random order and posted as I can remember them. He passed away on January 17th 2013.

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Chaw time

Back when Tom was about 12 years old, he got the bright idea to cut a piece of chewing tobacco from a block of his Grandpa's tobacco. He grabbed it and ran outside down to the neighbors house to hide out in the tree in their front yard. Tom had a big wad of chew and as he kept chewing on it the dizzier and sicker he got. He got so dizzy that he wasn't able to climb down out of the tree. Instead of attempting to climb down he just fell out of the tree onto the street below, breaking his arm in the process. He laid there until a car came by and helped him home. While he was at the hospital getting his arm set Grandpa showed up with a new full plug of chewing tobacco. Grandpa told him, "you don't have to steal chewing tobacco from me..I'll buy you all you want!" Tom looked up and told Grandpa, "I'll never stick that stuff in my mouth again!"