Since I didn't have a car at school in the fall of 87, I probably didn't pay much attention to this shirt. Wish I had now.

You were a rebel!

And the tickets were like $5 (if you even got caught)...

zephyr88 said:

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And the tickets were like $5 (if you even got caught)...

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Oh, we got caught

Roommate parked in the Zachry staff lot one morning when he was running late. Came out midday to find a ticket on his car. He drove to lunch and came back. The same spot was still open so he parked there again. He put the ticket from that morning on his windshield. At the end of the day there were TWO tickets on his windshield. The second one said, "Left then came back"


I tried not to get tickets, but I seem to recall they were about $15-20 by the end of the 1980s. That was pretty steep considering a meal at Los Nortenos or a deathburger at the Dixie Chicken was about $5.

I had to look close to read what it said. I must be near-cited.

My wife '85 and her brother '84 shared a pickup truck. She was shocked when her graduation was blocked due to several unpaid parking tickets. She never had a parking violation.

Her brother had registered the truck on campus in her name, accumulated a bunch of tickets and never told her.

She went to Kampus Kops mad as a wet hen, told her story and gave them her brother's new address since he had already graduated the year before.

Kops laughed about it and dropped the tickets. Good bull by the KK.

Finding a spot on the road by Evans was like winning the lottery. A bunch of handicap spots, no parking and bicycle spaces. If you got one of the few regular spots you felt like royalty.

Anyone else here forge a TAMU parking permit?

Heard a story one time that someone put an empty yellow envelope they used (with no ticket inside) on his windshield to fake out the PTTS guys. My understanding is that he eventually got caught.

That's pretty smart. I too got caught eventually.

I wasn't allowed my car first semester of my freshman year, but second semester i had it and I wanted a parking tag (lived on campus). They wanted me to pay the whole year, they wouldn't pro-rate me. My dad suggested I just scan my roommate's to get me through the semester so that's what I did.

Worked for practically the entire semester. A week or two before school was out I was towed.

My car was towed to a place in Bryan and I had to negotiate the payment to release my car because they had charged storage days (I'd go days without needing my car on campus). I think it was about $500.

Then I had to go in to talk to the head of PTTS and to turnover the forgery. She commended me on the level of detail and said it was one of the best ones she'd seen. Then she opened a drawer that had stacks and stacks and stacks of forged permits.

She said if I did it again she would send me to J-board.

They might kick you out if you tried that today.

AggieArchitect04 said:

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That's pretty smart. I too got caught eventually.

I wasn't allowed my car first semester of my freshman year, but second semester i had it and I wanted a parking tag (lived on campus). They wanted me to pay the whole year, they wouldn't pro-rate me. My dad suggested I just scan my roommate's to get me through the semester so that's what I did.

Worked for practically the entire semester. A week or two before school was out I was towed.

My car was towed to a place in Bryan and I had to negotiate the payment to release my car because they had charged storage days (I'd go days without needing my car on campus). I think it was about $500.

Then I had to go in to talk to the head of PTTS and to turnover the forgery. She commended me on the level of detail and said it was one of the best ones she'd seen. Then she opened a drawer that had stacks and stacks and stacks of forged permits.

She said if I did it again she would send me to J-board.

They might kick you out if you tried that today.

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It's grossly unfair of me, but imagine that she was speaking in Huttese.

Claude! said:

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AggieArchitect04 said:

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That's pretty smart. I too got caught eventually.

I wasn't allowed my car first semester of my freshman year, but second semester i had it and I wanted a parking tag (lived on campus). They wanted me to pay the whole year, they wouldn't pro-rate me. My dad suggested I just scan my roommate's to get me through the semester so that's what I did.

Worked for practically the entire semester. A week or two before school was out I was towed.

My car was towed to a place in Bryan and I had to negotiate the payment to release my car because they had charged storage days (I'd go days without needing my car on campus). I think it was about $500.

Then I had to go in to talk to the head of PTTS and to turnover the forgery. She commended me on the level of detail and said it was one of the best ones she'd seen. Then she opened a drawer that had stacks and stacks and stacks of forged permits.

She said if I did it again she would send me to J-board.

They might kick you out if you tried that today.

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It's grossly unfair of me, but imagine that she was speaking in Huttese.

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I never knew you could get a golf cart with 1-ton springs until I saw PTTS employees

One of my roommates was able to appropriate a university business parking pass. It was a yellow laminated sheet that had to accompany any other pass. He was a student worker and if I hadn't know better, I'd have sworn he was banging the department coordinator (or whatever she was) for whom he worked. She let him do all kinds of stuff.

I also got a new truck spring break of my last year. With paper tags, I just parked wherever if I needed to. Then one time I screwed up and left my parking pass on the mirror. They tied my pass to the paper plate and a handful of tickets showed up.