THE AMATEUR PARKER … Except for the Stealing Part… BY MELISSA BEAN STERZICK I


’VE BEENWRITINGTHIS COLUMNFOR quite awhile now, and I think it’s time Imade a confession. Or maybe a few confessions. I’ll just get it all offmy chest at once:


1. I think I’ve made it pretty clear how bad I want my very


own handicapped parking tag.Maybe readers have noticed how often I mention those empty blue spots. I covet them with a vengeance that is not at all politically correct. They’re so con- venient, so luxuriously large and so available when there’s no other parking space in sight. 2. I steal parking. OK, it’s not stealing when you check


meters for a green window and park in the spot with the most minutes left. But I know there are those in the industry who would like to take away this little life perk. I do, however, steal parking at pay-and-display lots. If


someone offers me their ticket, I take it, and vice versa. My justification for this dishonesty is a mixture of arro-


gance, sneakiness and generosity. I feel as if the P&D machine is too far away and too quirky. It’s not fair to expect us to use the device predictably when the device is not predictable. And it’s always fun to beat the system, right?And I feel happy, even though I’m committing a crime, when I save some other parker


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