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 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 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.





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