Friday, August 14, 2009

OK--SO WE'RE BUYING A PARKING LOT!! SCREW THE HOUSES


From:

"Charles Johnson"

To:
"Richard Cadena*"
THIS IS MY NEW 401K PLAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Subject: FW: A Well-Planned Retirement - sometimes it is best to be seen and not ...

WOW, Smart guy!!!

SMART FELLA, WISH I HAD THOUGHT OF THIS MYSELF

A Well-Planned Retirement - From The London Times:

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.

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