Nobody's Has E-Mail: Ticket Taker

Nobody's Favorite E-Mail of the Week:

I got this a while back, but I kept it around, just for a laugh. It might be somebody just made it all up, but it was in the London Times...

It's a bit of fun on a Saturday Nite...it just goes to show that you don't need a weatherman or a ticket taker to know which way the wind blows.. and if Obama keeps putting us all in debt, we might all be doing this some day!

The Ticket Taker

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.