A 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.
