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Not sure as to the accuracy of this, but it was emailed to me by my Dad (no linky sorry)
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 and coaches £5
This parking attendant worked there 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 per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million
And no one even knows his name.
It was manned by a very pleasant attendant with a ticket machine charging cars £1 and coaches £5
This parking attendant worked there 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 per day at Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over £3.6 million
And no one even knows his name.
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