Most universities require parking permits, and following them typically causes more than a little bit of frustration.

It seems there are always more students than spots, if I recall!

This student found a way to get around the university’s rules about how to use the parking permits, though, which must have felt great.

Let’s see how the story unfolds…

University parking rules; I don’t make them, I just follow them

Back in the mid 90s when I attended college, parking permits were required for all cars to park at my school.

The stated requirement was that the permit had to be attached to the windshield with its own backing (the permit had an adhesive backing to use when affixing to the windshield).

Taping the permit to the windshield was explicitly not allowed.

He got a parking ticket.

When I got my permit, I took some clear plastic wrap and wrapped it around the middle of the permit, leaving just a sliver of the permit’s sticky backing at the top and bottom of the permit.

I then attached the permit to the windshield of my car.

Later I got a parking ticket from my university for taping my parking permit to the windshield of my windshield.

He appealed the ticket.

Of course, I appealed the ticket.

When I went to the window to explain how I creatively attached the permit, the clerk said “that’s not what we meant.”

He had a good comeback that actually worked!

I replied, “I don’t care about what you meant. I care about what was written. The permit is attached to the windshield with it’s own backing.”

Surprisingly, the ticket was dropped and I never had another issue.

It’s amazing that they dropped the parking ticket!

Let’s see how Reddit responded to this story…

This reader never got a parking pass.

Another student found a free parking lot.

This person remembers a student with a unicycle.

Here’s another clever way a student avoided parking tickets…

It sounds like there are a lot of ways to avoid parking tickets!

Clever students.

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