The man with the ticket machine

Outside Bristol Zoo, there is a man with the ticket machine. In a car park, he charges £1 per car, £5 per coach bus. That is his duty. It is what he has been doing for over 23 years. Families, kids, couples, buses full of tourists... everybody stops in front of the man with the ticket machine, pays and leaves. Nobody pays attention to him, although he is a very pleasant guy. He is just "the man with the ticket machine".

Then, just one day like today, the man with the ticket machine does not turn up for work. Nobody knows what happens, nobody knows where he is. And nobody in charge of the car park.

Bristol Zoo Management then phones up the City Council and asks them to send a new parking attendant. But the City Council replies the parking is responsibility of the Zoo and explains that they have never sent anybody to work there.

Sitting in a villa somewhere on the coast of Spain is the man with the ticket machine, who had been working for over 23 years in a car park, where nobody noticed his presence, earning around 400 a day at Bristol Zoo.

And no one even knows his name.

It is up to you to believe this story or not.