Hi all,
This comes from my friend in California and was published in 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 ..."

"Er ... no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your
responsibility."

"Er ... no", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the
attendant was employed by the City Council, wasn't
he?" "Er ... 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.

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I love this story.

xx, Teal