"In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!" -Ron Carlson
Guest: Do you have any white tigers? Me: No. Guest: (Opening a zoo map and pointing accusingly at a picture of a leopard.) So you don't have any of these, huh? Me: That's a leopard. And yes, we have them.
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Guest: (Looking right at a banner proclaiming the times of the acrobat show to be 8:30 and 9:15.) What time is the show?
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Me: (Holding out my hand for a ticket to a guest who has just walked up to my turnstile.) Hi. Guest: (Stares blankly at me for a few seconds.) Oh. Do I need to have purchased a ticket already?
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Yes, it's a regular horror movie every evening at the zoo. And I just learned today that the local news media eavesdrops on our radio traffic. If even a hint of an animal escape or some other problem comes up on the radio, the news sends a helicopter buzzing over the zoo. Nice. My opinion of the media just sunk even lower. I didn't think that was possible.
