A Well-Planned Retirement

[Dare]

    Received this ina email,don't know
how true it is

     

    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 for cars ($1.40),

    £5 for busses (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 payrole.

     

    Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain

    (or some such scenario), 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 know his name.

[Scott]

I get about $5m, not $7, which is still around $200k per year, but don't forget that's for 7 day a week all year round.  If he kept it all, he's earned it, if you ask me.  Tax free makes it a lot better though...entrepreneurship...you've got to give him credit.