Anyone who has the pleasure of parking at the Valdosta State University campus knows that it is not a walk in the park. People steal your spot, you are late to class because of crowded parking lots, and you have parking tickets cluttered all over your room. However, sometimes there are kind hearted individuals that will help a frustrated student out. Here are a few parking struggles that happen on the daily to VSU students who have the blessing and the curse of driving to school.
1. When someone pulls up and immediately finds a spot that you overlooked after you have been driving around for thirty minutes.
2. When you drive up just as someone is leaving and miraculously score a spot.
3. Driving around the parking lot for forty-five minutes screaming "IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?!?"
4. Those gracious people that point you towards their car when they are leaving.
5. When construction cuts the parking spaces in half.
6. Walking to the parking lot in the middle of the night and being genuinely afraid you will be attacked or that you will run into a wild monkey.
7. Being late to class not because you slept in, but because you could not find a place to park.
8. Trying to find a parking spot during a football game.
9.Those people that take up two spots because they do not know how to park.
10. Having to park in Oak and dreading the walk over because your class is on the top floor of West Hall.
11. Being too scared to leave campus for lunch because you know you will not find another spot.
12. Praying that you will not get a ticket when you park in a reserved spot.
13. Deciding not to work out because you know you will have to take a fifteen minute walk to class with your forty pound book bag on your back.
14. Wondering why professors need so many parking spaces when they probably just park in student spaces anyways.
15. Feeling like you are in the Hunger Games while looking for a spot.
16. Forgetting to pay your tickets and not being able to look at your final grades.
17. Paying a ticket the day before it changes from $15 to $20 dollars.
18. Loosing your car in the Oak parking deck.
19. When the people giving out tickets watch you park in a reserved/ staff spot.
20. When you just want to grab a quick coffee at Starbucks and all of the timed spots by the Student Union are taken.
21. Walking to your car and then realizing you parked in Oak instead of Toombs.
22. When you park in a twenty minute spot for an hour and a half and do not get a ticket.
23. Taking off your parking decal in hopes that you will be mistaken as a lost visitor.
24. Having to walk twenty minutes across campus just for a fifty-minute class.
25.The game of chicken you play with cars as you are walking across the street.
