So our tour of the zoo had lasted maybe 40 seconds, and he says, “Why is that wall there?” I said, “I don’t know. I didn’t have anything to do with putting the wall. That was Mehrtens.” “Tear it down.” “Oh, okay, (laughs) sure.” So we start going around the zoo, and it seems like every three or four minutes, “Change that, move that, paint that, turn that over here, do this.” And I’m writing this stuff down. Well, about halfway through the tour, I quit writing. I ain’t never gonna remember this stuff, you know. Stupid me. So we go back up to the office, and this says a lot about him. I had, even though Mehrtens hadn’t been gone very long, I had actually moved into his office.
