It was a wonderful Tuesday afternoon as Kasie Wade walked out of the double doors on the side of Har-Ber High with Johnny Cash on her lips. The birds were whistling along, and the squirrels were dancing with one another to the beat being displayed. She threw her head back, filling the atmosphere with laughter and joy. She even waved at the annoying girl in her TV class.
Nothing could bring her down-until she approached her car. It was like she was falling from cloud 9 just like Katy Perry. What was on her car was something she wouldn’t wish even upon her enemies. There it was, sitting on the driver’s window, a bright hunter’s orange sticker that was mocking her. Stumbling backwards, she let out a cry, “WHY?!”
On Sept 3, 2013, assistant athletic director Chris Wood stuck orange warning stickers on 145 cars, including Wade.
Within the next week, 128 of those unlucky people gathered up $15 and got their parking stickers. With this news, Coach Wood beams with pride. As he talks about the student body at Har-Ber, he express much pride in how the student body “started off awesome, and that I couldn’t be any prouder of them.”
He expressed much affection towards the students. He didn’t pursue towing once again this year was because of the expenses and the issue of having to go off-site. He felt that it would be more of convinience for the student body to have onsite booting and pay $35 to take it off rather than having to go out of the way and pay an unreasonable amount of money to get their car back.
“The money will go into building funds, which is going straight back to the student needs,” Coach Wood explains. Every penny that a student has to pay for the removal of the boot will be put back into the student pocket in building funds.
“I definitely have more then just two boots,” Coach Wood said when confronted about the rumor of how many boots he has.
Coach Wood went on to explain the process by which they decide which cars get the boot. The number one thing that will get you booted, no hesitation, is illegal parking. The next cars that will be booted will the ones who‘ve gotten warning stickers. It’s a free for all.
All in all, Coach Wood couldn’t be prouder of the Wildcats. He was beaming with happiness that 127 student went and got their parking passes within a week.
If you’ve been stickered already and still are failing to get a parking pass, be worried. Who knows when Coach Wood will strike?