retirement?

We all pray for a good retirement, to either collect ours or live with a sponsor. In my case, I'll be working till I've killed over in this chair more than likely. It has been my observation here in Appalachia that most who got their retirement didn't live long enough to enjoy it because of health issues. It has been my experience as well, as a single household, that saving and planning for retirement is impossible, however here is a story about an ingenious parking lot attendant who, through wise planning, retired after only 25 years of employment with a nest egg of over seven million dollars!

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 £1 for cars ($1.40), £5 for buses (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.

Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain (or some such scenario) is a man who'd apparently had a ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then had simply begun to show up every day, commencing to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about $560 per day -- for 25 years. Assuming seven days a week, this amounts to just over seven million dollars!

And no one even knows his name.

Maybe he needs a good woman to sponsor? ... look no further.

*reposted from Whitt's Whittlings at Blogstream* check him out, great writer!