And other odd things would show up, truthfully. But one day, one evening, I remember I heard a car drive up and I heard (mimicking bleating) like that. And I said, I got so mad, ’cause I knew exactly what had happened. A guy drove up and he was gonna… Read More
So come out, you know, come out and help me get him.” And that’s all dark and nobody’s around. And of course, when we get out there to do it, to try to catch the sheep, here comes, above us, across from the zoo, there was a hill. And on… Read More
And of course it was often where we were, you know, we’re off in the back of the zoo. So that the road that if it had gone straight, it could go straight had, lead you to the ocean, that was blocked off, and there was a lot of people… Read More
I don’t know what happened, but he was tied up and he was thrown out of a car naked (laughing) in the back of there, you know?… Read More
I don’t know what his story was. Read More
You can, you know just, and see and listen to the animals at night,” which you can, and it just would be a wonderful thing. But it isn’t wonderful at all. Every, every zoo director, I believe. I’m trying to think if that’s the statement, this statement is true. Every… Read More
We had a kid, little, little kid, and it’s just, you know, you wake up on Sunday morning and there’s a disgruntled keeper sitting on the steps, waiting for you to come wake up, so he can bitch about his supervisor. That happened many times, and that happened a lot. Read More
And it’s just not a place, you know?… Read More
When you had to negotiate a contract, it wasn’t a contract, they couldn’t have a contract with the city, they could, I remember it’s called a memorandum of understanding. And that had to be in the memorandum of understanding that they wear the uniforms. And once I did that, I… Read More
What are the pluses and minuses?… Read More
The pluses are that you can live right by where your job is, the minus is, you can live right where your job is. (laughing) That’s, and that is, that is boy. That’s a, that’s a minus truthfully. It’s more of a minus than a plus, really is. People think… Read More
You had to know that you were gonna be, you were gonna wear the uniforms.” “No, no, you you’re making us wear them,” and that was the deal. That was their deal, that was their gripe, and they wouldn’t wear them. Read More
How did you get those keepers to wear the uniforms?… Read More
I mean, just saying, “How can you make us do it,” you know?… Read More
I said, “You wanted them.” I said, “You wanted the uniforms. I got the uniforms for you. Read More
Did you think that I was gonna let you leave them in your locker to stay, and you would never wear them?… Read More
Let’s vote on what you want. I don’t wanna dictate the color. I don’t wanna dictate the style. You vote and we’ll, that’s what we’ll go with. The majority will rule.” All right, so they of course voted and naturally it came out a tie, in every way and all… Read More
“But we’ll, we’re gonna be responsible to launder them.” I said you know, “And you’ll be, wear them, and we’re all gonna be happy.” Well, they weren’t happy of course. But anyway, they got the uniforms, got a uniform service to, you know, to do exactly what I said to… Read More
So finally I figured, well, I gotta take the bull by the horns. ‘Cause this is costing the city a lot of money. I mean, it was not expensive, was not cheap. It was very expensive. So I figured, all right, so one day, so I had a meeting, you… Read More
You mean nine out of 10 days?… Read More