Even in a parking lot, if you're assigned spaces and always/almost always use the same one: look and see if there are cracks in the asphalt, those little suckers can get through the TINIEST little holes! If you see itty-bitty sand 'volcanoes', that's them.
And it took a couple years before Mom finally could see the humor in the lizard-up-her-skirt! Soon as she pulled into the driveway, she had all us kids doing a search-and-destroy mission on any lizard we could find in the car.....