Waddoups was dining on the patio at Cafe Pierpont on Tuesday about 1:30 p.m. when he noticed an elderly woman and man park in the handicap stall in front of the restaurant, leaving a small space between the vehicle and the curb so the man could get into his wheelchair.

After they left, walking down the street (the sidewalk was blocked because of the restaurant patio), a parking-enforcement officer stopped, produced a tape measure and analyzed the distance of the car from the curb. He then wrote a ticket and slapped it on their windshield.

"Your city will allow a restaurant to close the sidewalk with their patio, thus forcing an elderly, handicapped couple to make their way down the middle of the street, but will not have some lenience on the distance this same handicapped person has parked away from the curb to enter his wheelchair?" Waddoups wrote. "Heaven knows I will always bring a tape measure with me on future travels to Utah to avoid such a circumstance."

Converts welcome: Layne Downs of Lehi has been a loyal season-ticket holder to BYU football games through thick and thin for 29 years, buying the same seats each year at Portal E, Section 9, Row 17, Seats 1-6.

This year, without notice, he was moved to Portal EE, Section 109, Row 8 (nosebleed section), with the cost increased from $969 last year to $1,090 this year.

When he called the ticket office, he was told that there were 6,000 new Cougar Club members, who get first dibs on the best seats.

Here's a suggestion: Why not give the brand new Cougar Club members the best seats available and each year as better seats become available, move them up instead of displacing loyal supporters of nearly 30 years?

A personal note to Mr. Downs: You are welcome to link arms with me and become a fellow Ute fan.

Greed is good? Former KSL sports director and BYU play-by-play broadcaster Paul James tries to do his part to conserve by shopping for energy-efficient cars and watching his speed on the road.

So he couldn't help but notice a car pulling "the biggest boat I have ever seen on the road," recently - a double-wide, triple-deck monster - coming down Parleys Canyon.

The name of the boat? "Poverty Sucks."

Get the requisition forms: Employees at the Salt Lake County Government Center are used to fielding complaints from the public frustrated with one regulation or another.

But they weren't prepared for the loud "BAM" that echoed through the north building recently - the apparent epicenter being somewhere inside the County Council offices.

It turns out that when aides informed council member Mark Crockett that two of his colleagues had decided to vote against the Granite School District split proposal that he had been pushing, he slammed his fist down so hard on his desk that he broke its glass cover.