I pay to use the gym. Why should I pay for parking too?

Let's assume there is free parking in that one lot by the gym.
Here's what will happen.
Students and employees will arrive on campus at 4 in the morning - just so they can park in that one free lot.
But so what? Two hours of sleep is worth the cost of the permit, right?
And once they park there, they will not move until the work day ends.
As a result,
1) You will lose close parking by the gym
2) Everyone who got up at 4 in the morning will be less productive
But it will be amusing, right? It'll be like that Toyota commercial where the deals are so great that everyone scrambles over to claim some vehicle. And, at the end, there's that one guy who raises his hand and says. "Uh...I didn't get one."
"Don't worry, we got more in the back."
We don't.

I'm going to make a cliched statement. But if I had a penny (and I mean a penny) for every phone call that I got talking about this, I'd be rich.
And the reason I'm being grumpy is because I got a phone call like this today. Today. In the middle of winter vacation.