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Monday, April 16, 2012

"A well planned retirement..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

Chester "Unc" Lau  is a retired cinematographer living his retirement years on the island of Oahu. "Unc" is a former army master sergeant of the Korean war and  is fond of the naturist lifestyle. Welcome "Unc" back as the source of today's guest blog," A true story from the London Times, " A well planned retirement."



This one is one of the best. From The London Times:

A Well-Planned Retirement

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 for cars, about $1.40, 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 7 days a week, this amounts to just over $7 million dollars!
......
And no one even knows his name.


Uncs" added commentary on da story!

 I Knew his name,but I won't tell,he his the Rabbi with the black dog name Lady Obama now having fun living in the prettiest island in Hawaii call Kauai surrounded by good cyber friends around da world with a huge taro farm to make Kosher POI for gentiles :-D

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