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Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:
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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