The illustration below demonstrates the following: Assuming that I am at point "a" on the following diagram, and my vehicle is at point "b", I maintain that it is perfectly legitimate to walk across the grass, in a direct line, to get to point b. Others I know maintain that instead, one must follow the sidewalk as outlined with the yellow line in the diagram below. Not only does this take considerably more time, it serves to demote the purpose of the grass to little more than ornamental landscaping, an idea perpetrated only since the advent of suburban America. To restrict grass to the category of "decoration" is an idea I wholeheartedly reject.