lurch
21-09-2009, 03:43 PM
I'm still nearly 40 years away unless I can come up with a plan lke this fuckin legend!
Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:
http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1253549541.jpg
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.
Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:
http://www.asfphotos.com/upload/1253549541.jpg
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.