Fit to be towed

With gas pushing four bucks a gallon and maintenance prices out of sight, you, too, may have to abandon your motor vehicle, as did the owner of an early-Nineties Buick at 42nd and Treadmill Tuesday night. If this should happen to you, the following advice may be helpful:

• Do not draw attention to your plight: pull straight into the space, within the lines if at all possible. Taking up one space is considered merely disrespectful: taking up two spaces is heinous.

• Make arrangements to have the vehicle picked up no later than the following morning, before the actual property owners notice.

• If your vehicle is front-wheel-drive, park with the nose out: this will simplify towing, if necessary.
  

The preceding has been brought to you as a public service.