I am a self-proclaimed parking-skate. This is not so dissimilar from a cheapskate however; a parking-skate is only cheap when pertaining to, well, parking.

I detest paying for parking even more then I loathe street cleaning. In a perfect world I would come to school (15 minutes early of course),drop off my car keys to the nice valet person in front of HSS and stroll into class unstressed and on time. At the end of the day Mr. or Mrs. Valet would be waiting and say, “No tip please, the university pays me plenty.”

Alas, this is far from reality. Mornings are more of a dog-eat-dog parking face off evoking panic and stress. This continues every two hours because honestly, how many people really have E-resident parking permits?

The solution is to do away with the parking fouls committed daily on the streets surrounding campus and in the sole parking structure. That means no taking up two spaces on the street.

Don’t be lazy!

Nor can we continue to park three feet from the curb so no one can slide in behind us. And please, Durangos are by no stretch of the imagination “compact.”

As Golden Gate Xpress staff writer YaVaughnie Wilkins pointed out in her article, “Slim pickings for Parking,” there are only 1,967 designated student spaces in the university’s on campus parking lots for the almost 30,000 students.

Due to the sheer lack of parking spaces in Lots 20 and 25 it’s obvious that SF State could not give out semester permits even it they wanted to. It would be parking chaos. But when a street cleaning ticket costs $35 and a towed car could set you back upwards of $250 students cannot afford to ignore the situation any longer.

We must take action.

I call upon all of us in the SF State community to take it upon ourselves to be responsible parkers. Think of your fellow students when you pull into the could-fit-two-cars-if-you-really-tried space.

Rub those blue lines off random tires for good car-ma. Be a part of the solution not the problem.

My parking-skate tendencies have led me to take public transportation. Even though it is not valet, you can do your homework on the bus, arrive to class in a blissful stress-free state and save an obscene amount of gas.