A Well-Planned Retirement

[Emery]

This guy is truly an imaginative business man


From The London Times:


A Well-Planned Retirement


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 cars ($1.40),

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 payroll.







Now the rest of the story:

It was discovered that he was neither a Zoo or a city employee.

Given that the Zoo was closed only on Christmas Day and that no one stays at the zoo all day and some days less people show up here's a rough calculation of what he made: at 140 cars and 10 buses per day = $266.00 X 364 = $96,824.00/yr.

96,824 X 25 = $2,420,600.00 (tax free).

He is now living in a villa in Spain (or Italy or Greece): who cares it's warm where ever he is.