And we sat on this, I sat down on the tree and he just paced back and forth, told me the history of his life and all this kind of personal things. And then finally he said, “You know, I’m gonna keep my job.” He said, “I’m outta here I know at five o’clock. I’m gonna leave, but trust me, within 30 days I’m gonna be back. And I’m gonna have the commission abolished and I’ll be it. I won’t be answerable to anybody.” Which, you know, at the time I was 26 years old. I didn’t know, you know. And he said, “I’ve been thinking.” He said, “I think they’re gonna want you to, you know, watch after the animals.” We didn’t have a director of operations. I mean, it was, thinking back, it was just, you know, the zoo just opened in the morning, and it kind of happened, you know.
