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Why didn't I think of this?

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 $1.40 and coaches $7.00.

This parking attendant worked there solid for all of 25 years. Then, one
day, he just didn't turn up for work.

"Well", said Bristol Zoo Management, "we'd
better phone City Council and get them to send a new parking
attendant."

"Aahhh...no", said the Council, "that parking lot is your responsibility."

"No", said Bristol Zoo Management, "the attendant was employed by the City
Council. Wasn't he?"

"NO!" insisted the Council. "We thought he was your employee all of these
years."

Sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain or on a white sandy beach
somwhere, is a bloke who had been taking the parking lot fees,
estimated at about $560 per day at the Bristol Zoo for the last 25 years. Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million!

And.........
no one even knows his name.

Editor's Note: I didn't do the math and I have not checked this in Snopes but if it's true, the guy's a genius, and lucky too! Unless of course he didn't show up that day because he died, leaving a grieving but very wealthy widow.