I said, “You know, I think I’m gonna apply for that job “that Marlin Perkins had, and just see what happens.” And so I went down and talked to people at the Park District, and said, “I think I’d like to apply for Marlin’s position.” And when I told him Marlin about it, he looked at me incredulously and said, “You’re crazy.” And I said, “Why?” He said, “Well, don’t you know “what a miserable bureaucracy, “a city department like this can be?
