Trouble With Parking
... I had nothing but positive thoughts running through my head as I began to walk to my car over in the Health Center parking lot. ... I had just come from my summer English class and I could not let them know I was not using the Health Center parking lot for its intended purpose. ... There were three parking attendants there watching as the tow truck guy began doing his thing which was about to cost me something like three hundred bucks. ... ¡§You have unpaid parking tickets! ... ¡¨ I was in too good of a mood to argue with this guy as he ripped into me about not paying my parking tickets and blah blah blah, and how I cannot park here and that he was gonna tow me even though I was standing right there ready to leave, just itching to tell him to go fuck himself as I drove off giving him the finger out the window. ... I really believe, if one were so compelled to take a closer look at the parking situation here at UNL, we as faculty and students could come up with some ways to tweak the system in order to make everyone happy. ... While I am on the subject of us poor UNL students, the fact that we have to pay so damn much for parking tickets should leave us with no beefs or problems with this budget crisis we are having. ... It was summer time and all the students and faculty were on break for the summer, which means parking problems decrease dramatically with the lack of traffic. ... We coaches all received temporary passes for the week we were going to be parking on campus. The pass was intended for parking at the dormitories even though there were other lots we could park in and technically were supposed to in instances such as when we commuted to the Bob Devaney Sports Center. ... I mean we are talking about parking in the Sahara Desert over there. ... Another problem I have is the fact that there is no way of knowing that University Parking and Transit Services will validate your parking in the garage when you go to their office to take care of these tickets. ... Some ¡§Hillbilly Joe¡¨ might come along who is originally from the sticks and does not even know the concept of parking validation because ¡§hickville¡¨ only has dirt roads and you can park any damn where you please.