Steve,
For parking you might drive down to the police station and do this. I was at work when this actually happened at the downtown Redding office and one of the guys called me. The company leased four or five parking spots in a parking lot next to the main office and they had a guy working there that they had borrowed from out of town. They had a 2nd level supervisor that was universally hated by all the local telephone company people, even the outside people and he was an ass I guess. Anyway they had sent this guy to get something and when he came back he parked the company car in the spot it was in. This supervisor came in yelling about it not being parked straight in the parking spot, but according to the person telling me this it was within the lines. He said this guy just looked at the supervisor and got a ruler and went out into the parking lot and spent two hours moving and measuring until he got the car with all 4 wheels the exact same distance from the side lines and the front and back of the parking spot. I guess the supervisor almost had a stroke as this was a public lot and they had quite a group from what I understood watching by the time he finished. When he went back inside the supervisor started to say something and the guy telling me the story said this guy told him to shut up and if he ever spoke to him again like that they would be digging his head out of the garbage. So maybe if you drove to the local police lot and spent sometime measuring and making sure your wheels are just the correct distance they would get the hint.
Heck, I was down at Jacks one day last Summer talking to a guy I know who had inherited a lot of money and he had bought a brand new Ford of some kind. Anyway he got a call from his wife that a CHP officer was going to arrest her and have the vehicle towed as it was to long for the highway. Now that CHP officer is in the Bay Area somewhere.
Ron
