A Well-Planned Retirement

A Well-Planned Retirement

Outside England ’s Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for

150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its parking fees were

managed by a very pleasant attendant.....The fees for

 cars ($1.40),for buses (about $7).

Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a 

day of work,he just didn't show up; so the zoo 

management called the city council and asked it to send

 them another parking agent. The council did some 

research and replied that the parking lot was the zoo's 

own responsibility. The zoo advised the council that the 

attendant was a city employee.

The city council responded that the lot attendant had 

never been on the city payroll.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of 

Spain, or France, or Italy, is a man who'd apparently had

 a ticket booth installed completely on his own and then 

had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to

 collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about 

$560 per day -- for 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, 

this amounts to just over $7 million dollars ......and no 

one even knows his name.