the ultimate retirement..........

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Bob Alcaro

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just perhaps.......this is the ultimate retirement...........Bob



*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, is a bloke 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)!

And no one even knows his name.

 
There was a guy here in Charlotte that moved the barricade to one of the entrances to Grainger's big parking lot and charged $10 a car parking for a Panthers game. He only got away with it one time but he netted a few hundred for his ingenuity!:lol::lol::lol:
 
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