I've been going round and round via the telephone with the Marist folks about parking permits for my cars. They're stickers, but that would be a problem if you had two vehicles, since you can only get one parking permit. After a couple calls back and forth, the answer came, "You can laminate the sticker, and just swap it from car to car". OK, sub-optimal, but it makes sense in a way.
So, today, I drive over to let them copy my license and registration, and give me my parking permit.
"When do you start classes?" asks the girl at the desk.
"Tomorrow," I reply.
"Because any parking pass I give you is just going to expire in about a month and a half."
"Won't I get towed if I don't have one?"
"No, not in the summer."
"OK, then can I get my fall parking permit?"
"No, not yet."
"Can I at least give you the paperwork so you can send me one when it's time, rather than me coming over here again during the day when I'm normally working?"
"No, if I took that, I'd have to issue a pass for the current time-frame."
sigh....