Here's a fun urban legend about a self-employed parking lot attendant at the Bristol Zoo in England.
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.
Read the end. Too good to be true, of course.
(HT: RB.)