Kelly R Davis
June 11th, 2010, 01:30 PM
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 pound sterling for cars ($1.40),
and 5 quid 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.
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 pound sterling for cars ($1.40),
and 5 quid 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.