Back from the Summer for a whole new school year

An update on the permits:

While nothing has really changed in terms of where people can park, the office decided that this year - at least - the permits would be on the outside of the car window. The action prompted several customers to voice their opinon:

The most common comment: "Why?"
"It makes it easier for the officers to see the permit. We've had a lot of trouble with tinted windows in the past."

"What if someone steals it?"
"Then we'll replace it."
Customer departs with a skeptical glance. After all, how can you really trust a profit-making department to keep their word?

"So I can just put it over my old permit."
"You betcha," says Mama Grizzly.

Comment heard by a departing customer: "Oh, someone must have ordered the permits wrong this year. That's why they have to go on the outside."
You've got to be kidding me. You think that we'll make a mistake on the order of several thousand permits?

Now, even if we have a nice diagram on the back of the permit telling the person exactly where and how the permit should be applied, there's always someone who...wait for it...wait for it.. goes and puts it on the back windshied. That's right - even if there's a picture on the BACK OF THE PERMIT!

Free parking does not mean that you can leave your vehicle in a handicapped spot!

It's so strange to realize how many people leave their car for FIVE minutes - just five - no less, no more - and come back to their car to find a ticket on it.

"I was only gone for five minutes!" says the complainer. "You and a lot of other people," thinks the listener.