Why are you asking here? Ask the man.

"micky" wrote in message ...
I used to lead hikes etc. on weekends, and when I didn't do it other
people did, and we needed a good location to meet, near the Xway, both
for people arriving and when we were all leaving. We carpooled so 3 out
of 4 cars would be left there all day.

There was a quite small shopping center which always had a couple
hundred empty spaces. Most of the parking was near the street, but some
on the other 3 sides and I'd guess it totalled 300 spots with no more
than 50 used at a time on weekends. No more than 150 used at any time
during the week.

Eventually I found out indirectly that the owner of the property didn't
like us doing this, so I would try to get people to have lunch or dinner
at a restaurant there. (Some weekend days he drove by to check the
center or the lot but he never left a note on a car.)

But the strange thing was the signs, along the outside border of the
lot. "Cars must be parked between the lines" is all it said. And there
were typical parking lot lines, white lines of the usual width on a
black or dark grey pavement, spaced as they usually are in parking lots.
It was easy to park between the lines and everyone did. I think we
would have even were there no signs.

Nothing about illegal parkers being towed away.

What could he have wanted when he wrote those signs?

Have you ever seen signs like that?