Do we need to have classes devoted to parking?  Most of it is common sense…

• Don’t park your huge-ass SUV or truck in small car parking.  All you’ll get is dings in your doors and in other people’s doors and a lawsuit because someone scraped their vehicle on your tail that was sticking out.
• Don’t park in handicap parking unless you or a passenger is handicapped.  You don’t need the space if the person you got the hangtag or plate for is not in the vehicle. Which leads to….
• Don’t park in handicap parking unless you have a permit.  You really don’t want to pay the resulting fine.
• Remove your trailer hitch.  Vehicles these days have removal trailer hitches so that you don’t have to violate vehicle laws every time you are not hauling. (Most states require a flag or special device if anything extends past the back bumper.)
• Don’t park in the end of the rows.  You know that curved YELLOW area that cap the ends of the parking spaces.  The color alone should warn you that there is no parking. And it is not a motorcycle space either.
• Speaking of yellow… if the curb is painted yellow, DO NOT PARK THERE.  Yes, it is in your driver’s license book you where supposed to have read before taking the test. 
• If the sign says “NO PARKING” that means no parking… even if you keep the motor running while you are waiting for someone.
• If you are waiting for someone with your motor running then you are by legal terms parked.  Remember that when you get a ticket for parking in the middle of the street.
• Do not park behind other cars legally parked.  You the kind, will park length-wise behind three or four car parked cars just because they are only going to be there a few minutes… which end up being a few hours.
• Parking lots are not speedways.  We are all in a hurry, but you will not get there if you have an accident.
• Running a stop sign in a parking lot is still illegal and you can get a ticket for it.  Just ask a friend of mine when he said the police will not give you a ticket and he got one just a minute later.

I know it is nick-picky, but you try waiting for someone to move their big-ass truck out from behind you so you can go home.

Next, why hitting people with wet noodles is a bad idea and other morsels of good advice.

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