Planning

Nearby Dulles Airport has an interesting payment system for its parking lots. To save on time, you're supposed to take your little ticket into the terminal with you. When you're ready to leave--whether it's two hours later or two weeks--you insert the stub into a machine inside the terminal and pay the appropriate amount. Then you head out to your car. As long as you make it to the booth and insert the ticket into the little slot within a certain grace period, you're good to go.

In an effort to encourage people to follow this procedure, the airport has put up banners that say "Plan your exit strategy now."

Hmmmm.... What a novel idea! Plan your exit strategy now, BEFORE you go in!! Maybe the parking attendants at Dulles should be running the damn country while Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld go manage the lots at the airport!

Then again, you may never get your car out of there.