A Well Planned Retirement

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.