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 were £1 for cars ($1.40), 

£5 for busses (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 some such scenario), is a man who’d apparently had a 

ticket machine 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. 

From The LondonTimes:

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