[guide.chat] What a Way to Retire!!

  • From: "Bonner" <djbonner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Guide Chat" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 22:31:18 +0100


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From The London Times: A Well-Planned Retirement   
A perfect example of government mismanagement.   

         

Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot for 150 cars and 8
buses. For 25 years, it's parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were for cars (£1.40), for buses (about £7). 
Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing a day off 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, 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 pounds ... and
no one even knows his name. 
  
I think this is my favorite E-Mail ever!!   

 
 
 
  
 
 
 
 
 

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