A Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:
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> Outside the Bristol Zoo, in England , there is a parking lot for
150 cars and 8 coaches, or buses.
>
> It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine
> charging cars ?1 (about $1.40) and coaches ?5 (about $7).
>
> This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years.
Then,
> one day, he just didn't turn up for work
>
> "Oh well", said Bristol Zoo Management - "we'd
better phone up the City
> Council and get them to send a new parking attendant . . . "
>
> "Err . . . no", said the Council, "that parking lot
is your
> responsibility."
>
> "Err . . . no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the
attendant was employed
> by the City Council, wasn't he?" "Err . . . no!"
insisted the Council.
>
> Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (presumably),
is a
> man who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at ?400
(about
> $560) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days
a
> week, this amounts to just over ?3.6 million ($7 million - or
$280,000
> every year for 25 years)!
>
> And no one even knows his name.
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