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Lie Pie Title: A Well-Planned Retirement Editor's Note: Honey, this is one of my all-time favorites. Sadly, there ain't a grain of truth to it. My heart broke when I found it on Snopes.com. I don't understand why I so desperately want it to be true, but I do. Not only do I wish it were true, I wish it was me lounging in the villa on the coast of Spain with $7 million under my mattress. I should feel ashamed of myself, but I really do think I'd sleep like a baby in a big feather bed in a Spanish villa watching the cool ocean breeze stir the open window curtains. --Granny, 6/5/2010 WATCH YOUR STEP: STEAMING VIRAL EMAIL B.S. STARTS HERE 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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