There were reporters out there. There were TV crews. It was awful. And he sought me out and he said, “I want you, the maintenance supervisor, maintenance and construction supervisor, and the business manager to be co-directors of the zoo until we hire somebody.” I said okay, knowing that the business manager would really be the one kind of calling these shots ’cause I didn’t know anything about finance. I was a zoology major. That was Friday. So Saturday morning, everybody reported to work even though Mehrtens told the press that there’d be a general strike. But nobody, there was no strike.
