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Best Retirement ever...

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:15 pm
by Panther
This will bring a tear to your eye (have you checked your 401k lately?).

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.

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 6:54 pm
by Convertible
I know what I am going to start doing next week!!!!!! Smart guy!!!!!! How funny. :shock:

Posted: Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:13 pm
by Sweeper
Wow!! That's easy work!! :D