A well planned retirement

I don’t know if this story is true or not,  but I really hope it is

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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, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees, estimated at £400 (about $620) per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million ($7.6 million)!

And no one even knows his name.

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Comments

[Robin from Israel]

How fabulous. God I hope it's true!

[Mary Emken]

Thumbs up to who ever he was!

[PJ]

A great story - I hope it's true too.

[Bumbles]

Seems awfully difficult to believe - wouldn't the zoo have had to pay some sort of fee to the Council for an employee to come and work in the lot? I dunno how it works in Bristol but if the story is true I sure be they've figured out who handles the parking lot attendant now!!! Good stuff as always Nicholas - haven't been by in a while - bad Bumbles.

[Shauna]

Didn't I send that to you originally? Where are my props? You don't even call me anymore...sigh...