A code of ethics for our campus parking lot is just about one of the most pathetic things imaginable.

We don’t need an unwritten rule to help facilitate parking. We need people to grow up and stop complaining about the most trivial of things, like parking.

This whole cry-baby parking lot situation is ridiculous. Stop complaining, stop whining, and be the adults that we all consider ourselves to be.

First of all, it is impossible to get everyone on the same page so that every single person that drives to school is aware of this pointless code.

Secondly, how would it be enforced? Would signs be posted throughout the campus and parking lot reminding people that he who arrives first, parks first?

Some people have a family and arrive just after dropping off their children at school or daycare. They should not have to be subjected to this “code of the parking lot” and risk being late for class simply for having a family and not being able to spend thirty minutes looking for a space.

It isn’t even possible to police something like this. Even if someone has been waiting for a space with their car turned off, laying back in their seat, that does not entitle them to a spot in front of them.

Actually, wouldn’t it be considered some type of safety hazard to turn off a car in a packed parking lot and sit and wait for a space?

Another car could back out and hit the parked car, right?

Yet another argument as to why this whole thing is silly is that if someone is waiting for a space in front of them and a space opens up behind them, there is no way for other drivers to know which space the person is waiting for.

In no way can an argument be made that people should drive around for undetermined amounts of time missing out on parking spaces to ensure that “MC Sensitive” doesn’t get offended about a specific parking space.

Here is a perfect solution. Let’s all petition the powers that be on campus and demand that all classes cater to those that drive. We could move all classes to the parking lot thus eliminating the argument for such a pointless code.

We could do like they do in the drive-in movies and have class in our cars. No need to get out of the car means no parking wars.

How would we handle the congestion problem you ask? It is a small price to pay for such a luxury.

Better yet, here is an idea. Why don’t you stop complaining about people taking your space, which is probably always conveniently a close space, and park further back in the parking lot.

A little walking never hurt anyone. It is not very likely that you will complain about losing a space that is in the middle of the parking lot.

Bottom line, most of us are adults, or at least we consider ourselves to be. This is real life. We can’t just go around suggesting codes of ethics for anything that we don’t get our way on.

If we were to do something like this with our school parking situation, why don’t we take it a step further and apply a similar tactic at our jobs as well?

For example, if a co-worker spends more time in the employee restroom than we think he should, we could institute a code of ethics which says that all employees need to limit restroom visits to a minute or hold it so other employees can use the restroom.

Think about it like this; what would be an acceptable reason for someone taking that ever-so-coveted parking space that you have been waiting for?

Would an emergency on campus be an acceptable reason? If they are running late for a class and in danger of being dropped, would that be okay? How about if they are first semester students and are not aware of the so called law of the parking lot, is that a good reason?

Fact is that people don’t generally tend to walk around throughout the day thinking of ways to make life horrible for others. A fact of life as adults is that sometimes bad things happen to undeserving people. All is fair in love and parking, people.