There is a reason residents of Grand Blanc avoid the Saginaw Street, Holly Road intersection around 7 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. Yet every teenager is stuck in the midst of the mass chaos known as the high school parking lot.

The parking lot is a mess on a normal day, but when a freak snow storm hits, it’s like us mid-Michiganders have never seen snow before. Arriving at the school at my normal time, I was stuck in the last row of the upper lot, when I should have been about three rows closer. Cars made curved lines, they were so close, students cannot even open their doors. Some were even so far apart a Smart Car could have created its own spot between them.
I realize there are no lines to go by, but you passed your driving test didn’t you? You know the dimensions of your car, and what it looks like when you normally park, so why can’t you keep your one to two feet distance between cars?
Don’t forget about the lower lot, I didn’t even stick around to see how the afternoon rush played out. Cars were bumper to bumper. No aisle ways to pull out into—you had to wait for the person behind you to leave.

There are not even enough spaces for the amount of students who drive at this school to park, let alone when students forget what a parking lot looks like when the ground is covered in snow and the lines are lost.
The school can do little to solve this, but they can try to keep the lots as clean as possible in the time they have before the students arrive. Students just need to gain some common sense when it comes to parking. How hard can that be?