[matt711]

You guys have no idea just how silly the whole issue of "special" parking spots can get. The unit I work in is a headquarters battalion for a major Army command. We have a new building that has the official "green" stamp of approval. So... we are required to have a certain percentage of hybrid spots, fuel efficient vehicle slots, and carpool/vanpool slots. I recently had to write the parking policy for this nightmare. I was swamped with requests for things like "expectant mother" parking.

The best part of all of this is that the military police will only enforce violations of the handicap spaces. So even when I get the e-mail from some colonel telling me that he witnessed a person parking their 70's muscle car in a hybrid spot I can't do much about it. I was told to develop a "parking violation" document that I will be required to place on the violators. I was suggested that it say "you are a douche, move your car" but my boss was not happy with that solution. So now I have to do parking enforcement duty once a week. This exciting event begins at 0530 when my minions and I fan out across the parking lot to place parking violations on all the Dodge Chargers and F250s squeezed into hybrid spaces. Can you guess where all the violations end up?