With the joy of driving comes also the joy-or lack thereof- of parking.

It’s always a difficult task to maneuver your car into that tiny spot in between two larger vehicles that will definitely sue if you so much as breathe on the paint.

That pressure can be magnified in the presence of the high school parking lot. New drivers, sleepy drivers, aggressive drivers, not to mention the pedestrians that refuse to walk anywhere but the middle of the aisle.

That is, once you’ve gone through the process of actually finding a parking space.

With a student body the size of ours, the parking lot has to be huge, but even with our main parking lot and the smaller one by the tennis courts, it’s not enough. Each year we get more incoming students which means more cars and a need for more parking spaces.

Why is it, then, that we have a fully functioning parking lot at the south side of the school that isn’t open?

It’s understandable to want to quickly clear off the snow for driving ranges after school in the winter, but last I checked (which was just barely) it hasn’t snowed yet and probably won’t for a while. Why can’t we utilize this empty space while we can?

Everyone knows of the nightmares that come in the parking lot right after school and everyone makes a mad rush to get home. There are only two exits available in the main parking lot, adding a third on the other side of the school could reduce this traffic remarkably.

The school paid money for that lot, not just to be used for a range, but an actually parking lot. The parking spaces are darker and more prominently painted than the driving range, shouldn’t that show us the priority?