This opinion goes out to anybody that parks in the football parking lot. Since most of my classes have always been in Gooch Hall, I have always parked there. That was the case until a couple of weeks ago.

Being that this is my last semester, I decided that I was not going to pay to get my vehicle registered for this year. And since I park in the “Timbuktu” area of the football field, I really did not think that I would have any problems from the “ticket fairies.”

Throughout all of the fall semester, I had never gotten any tickets. In fact, I had never seen anybody checking tags in the football field lot at any time. Then, the Thursday after we came back from Fall Break, I mysteriously received a ticket for having expired tags. I then received another ticket on the following Tuesday of the next week.

Now obviously, I was illegally parked. Did I deserve the tickets?

Absolutely. But, there is one thing that seems just a little strange about the whole situation. I have been parking over there the whole semester, so why now, with more than half of the semester over with, is the football field lot getting checked?

Maybe I have just been lucky. At least that is what I was told when I went to pay for my tickets. But I will have to disagree on that one. For one thing, I don’t get that lucky. And it’s not like I only park over there for an hour or two a day. There have many days in which I have parked in the football field lot for over eight hours, never receiving a ticket.

I don’t think that I am the only one that has had this happen. One of the days that I received a ticket, I noticed at least 20 other vehicles, which also had tickets. I am not saying that the traffic office decided to start enforcing the football field lot at the end of the semester to get more money out of already money-starved students. But it just seems a little strange that I have just now received two tickets, while I have been parking in the football field lot all semester.

Parker Magness is a senior Communications major from Sharon.