My Personal Hypothesis

On the first day of class this year, I was running late. Well, I wasn't actually running late, but I did misjudge the 7:30am traffic, so by the time I neared campus, I was going to be cutting it close to get into class on time. Considering my deep aversion to ever be late to anything, I simply couldn't deal with the idea of parking all the way in student parking somewhere and walking up to class, especially when my first class is in a building that's right next to a faculty parking lot. Naturally, I decided my best option in this situation was to just park in faculty parking. I came out from my last class that day, fully expecting to have receive a ticket. To my surprise, no ticket adorned my windshield.

The next day (the next day I had class...really two days later) I actually was running late, so I decided to chance it again. Unfortunately, this time I did receive a ticket. The day after that...ok, I totally parked in faculty again. No ticket. It was on this, the third day, that I realized there was a pattern. On the two days that I had gotten away with parking there (aka, not received a ticket), I had pulled into the stall, so my back license plate was facing the road. The day that I was ticketed, I had pulled through the stall, so my front license plate was facing the road.

side story--During the summer, I was on my way in Frank (the car) to pick up some swim suits from a local swim shop for work. This girl rear ended me, and surprisingly, the only thing that happened to my little Geo Metro was a bent back license plate. Her car was completely smashed...little Frankfurt has more in him that I thought!

I was thinking about this pattern that I noticed, and I developed a hypothesis. The parking jeep license-plate-scanner-thing must not be able to read my back license plate due to its bent nature! Upon developing this hypothesis, I realized that it had to be tested. Therefore, I have officially parked in that same faculty parking lot every day (every other day) of this semester, making sure that it's always my back license plate that's pointing to the road. I've parked in a variety of spaces, have left and returned to ensure that I parked at different times, and I have not received a single additional ticket.

What do you think? Is my hypothesis a good one? Or do the parking gods just smile down upon my and Franklin?