Parking Lot#4 was open and occuppied when we arrived about 2 1/2 hours before kick-off. We were meeting the folks who always park next to us and had a joint tailgate planned.
As usual, we were already geared up for some sort of harrassment at the parking lot before we even got there. When I presented my pass, the guy who took it immediately turned around and called his boss. His boss, stuck his face in my window and snarled at me, "this is a green pass - you gotta have a pink pass for an RV". It was at this point that my wife says I acted "inappropriately". Ok, I became a raving you-know-what. I'd used the same pass for my RV for two years and after all the c__p we'd put up with all season, this was too much.
After exchanging several pleasantries with the nice parking lot supervisor, I told him to "call the cops", slammed my window shut and proceeded to shut my RV down in his driveway. This stand-off went on for about fifteen minutes and then he brought his puny tow truck over and threatened to tow my 40' diesel pusher with a half-ton pickup. When I quit laughing, I told him I'd move my RV - I'd move it right into the parking lot that I had a valid pass for.
I started up and started moving towards our usual spot in Lot 4. The parking lot supervisor who was now walking around stiff legged and getting ready to turn his leg up on my tire, told his employees to turn me around and get me "out of his parking lot".
Instead of turning around, I drove through their waving arms and into the back of Lot 4.
The super then had his tow truck race over to our RV and back up to it. I started laughing at the tow truck driver as he tried to get his lifting rig under the heavy end of my pusher and he had a hard time keeping a straight face. The parking lot super then strutted around with a radio in one ear and his cell phone in the other as he announced that he was having me arrested for "being an a - h-". The folks already in the parking lot, crowded around and started giving the super a hard time, which just made him wild-eyed.
Finally, the campus cops showed up and after ten minutes of talking to everybody, they told the parking lot guy to go back to work and leave the paying customers alone. That's when I found out that a RV pass is PINK. A car pass for lot #4 is GREEN. They both cost $40. So, we went through an hour of hassle because we didn't have a PINK pass.
While all this was going on, my son tried to get into the lot and they refused to let him park when he asked what was going on and they told him, "oh, that guys' being an a-h-" My son said, "that's my Dad." That's when they refused to let him park.
Our friends who park next to us were also refused admission for almost a half-hour when they asked what was going on and they told the parking lot bozos that they were with us. They had RVs stacked up all over the place and they harrassed every RV the rest of the night. They even had folks move who were already parked. I was obvious it was the last game of the year and they were going to make us all pay for refusing to follow their stupid parking rules.
The next Monday, I got hooked up with Sam Wheeler and he got me in touch with his folks. I got an apology from the Parking folks, but not from the Athletic Dept. My wife says the 2007 season needs to go off without any incidents or it's our last year. We talked to a number of folks that night and about half of them said, "they'd had enough".
It's kind of sad - we bought the RV to tailgate at ASU games. We thought it was going to be a blast - instead it's been a nightmare. Just because the Athletic Dept. turns the parking over to a contractor. It's got to get better.