Editor’s Note: This is the tenth article in a series focusing on moving vehicles of State College and the people whose job it is to drive them.

As Karin Musser is about to make a left turn on Pugh Street in downtown State College, a young man comes running up behind her vehicle.

"Miss, I got this probably 30 seconds ago, I was just at my buddy's place," the man says, flashing a distinct small yellow envelope.

Musser, a State College parking enforcement officer, had just ticketed the car, which was parked in a no-parking zone.

When the man tells Musser he just moved his car, Musser smiles, takes the ticket from his hand and tells him not to park there again.

"See he was nice about it, I had no problem with him," she said.

Musser then drives off and continues to ticket people parked illegally in the borough.

"I'm in charge of my own tickets, so I can give and take them away [as I wish]," she said.

However, not everyone is as lucky as that man.

Musser said she only listens and considers voiding people's tickets when they are respectful.

"I don't respond to people yelling at me ... you have to be decent," she said.

Musser's job consists of checking for illegally parked cars and time-limit violations. The steering wheel is fixated on the right side of her vehicle.

"We get mistaken for mailmen [because of the right side]," Musser said. "It's like 'No, I can't take your mail.' "

When Musser started her parking enforcement job seven years ago, she was afraid of driving on the right side, but now it's just natural to her. Having the steering wheel on the right makes Musser's job more efficient -- she just has to drive up next to a car, stick the parking ticket under the windshield wiper and drive away.

"I usually scoot off as fast as I can," she said.

On certain days, Musser has to leave the vehicle behind and hit the downtown streets on foot to check for expired meters and collect the money in the meters -- her least favorite part of the job.

"Money is just dirty; everyone touches it," Musser said.

She said there are a lot more positives than negatives about her job, such as not being confined in an office or having to answer phone calls. She especially likes the fact that she can just drive around and not have to deal with her boss, unless he calls her.

Musser also gets a rush over noticing little details in parking violations.

"Ooh right here we are going to get a few [cars]... sorry I just really get excited about this," Musser said as she pulled up to three cars parked on a no-parking zone.

She explained that all it takes is one person to park illegally and then people will just follow because "they think 'Oh if he parks here, I'll park here, too.' "

As she continues to drive around the streets, she finds a few cars on the same road that already have parking tickets. She looks at them and realizes they were issued over seven hours ago. Parking officers can ticket people again four hours after the previous ticket. Musser goes ahead and gives them their second ticket.

"For some people it's worth it as long as they have a place to park close to where they are staying," she said.

Most people do not like coming back to find the yellow envelope on their windshield, Musser said.

"They expect you to know as a person what they were doing," she said. "To us, it's not a person, it's just a car."

Because she has had so many experiences with people calling and saying they weren't parked illegally, she has learned to carry a camera with her.

"Sometimes you just know you're gonna get a call for it, and all you have to do is show them the picture," she said.

Musser really makes no distinction between the cars. An illegally parked car or expired meter is just that, nothing deeper.

"I've ticketed my boss, I've ticketed the [Police] Chief's wife," she said. "I really don't know whose car is whose, I just know no one can park for free."