Man's milk request spills over in protest

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By Sue Guinn Legg
Press Staff Writer
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A Johnson City man with a taste for Waffle House coffee braved Thursday’s chilly temperatures and biting winds to stage a one-man protest outside the restaurant’s North State of Franklin Road location after he was asked to leave and not come back.

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Hoard, a 23-year Waffle House patron, said the dispute began five years ago when he requested milk for his coffee at another city Waffle House and Mount asked him to pay for a full glass. Hoard said he instead bought milk at market next door, came back for his coffee and stated to Mount, ‘Got milk? I do.’ ’’

“I made Andy Mount look like a fool over that milk for my coffee and he’s had a vendetta against me ever since,” Hoard said as he sat in a lawn chair on the sidewalk outside the restaurant, brandishing a protest sign to passing motorists.

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“I’m a poor man. I don’t have a bone, nothing. To single me out of the thousands of people who walk through that door is wrong,” he said, as a bank thermometer across the street flashed 37 degrees.

“I’m cold. I shouldn’t have to do this. But this is not right. I’m an American. I’m a disabled veteran. And this is a violation of my civil rights. I plan to stay here even if I catch pneumonia doing it.



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