Escape from the Parking Ticket

Damn. Those whippersnappers come back to university and hog all the parking spaces. (Of course there would be a whole lot more spaces available if people got that one car/one spot thing down pat.) What is a lecturer running behind after getting the kid off to school to do? If I take the car to the parking lot at the back of beyond I will be late for class. If I park behind the college I'll get a ticket. I suck it up and park behind the college, calling it $15 well spent. I had a parking ticket last week, but managed to escape being given one today -- hurrah!!!! Soon all will be well. I just have to wait until the freshies figure out how arduous it is getting up every morning and coming to class. Soon they will have made friends, start to spend their weekdays getting hungover, and will find it impossible to pry themselves away from their significant/insignificant/temporary others and I will be able to park again. Happens every year.