Carson street is the heart of Pittsburgh's South Side. It's a fairly long strip of bars, clubs, restaurants, eclectic shops, tattoo parlors, comic book shops and chiropractors (one of these things doesn't belong....). Some are pretty fancy, some are pretty crazy hippie, and there are people of all kinds to see.

-A guy was trying to parallel park his VW Bug completely wrong and really pissing off traffic in both directions. A motorcycle cop stopped oncoming traffic to give the little car more room to maneuver and when he finally got into the (rather large) parking space, the cop drove by and yelled, "If you can't park that little thing maybe you should walk!" The people eating outside at the cafe I was at got a kick out of it. When the guy got out of the car he walked quickly, head down, to his destination.

-An older man on an older motorcycle of the Harley-Davidson variety. He had some kind of weird fur cover over the back of it, behind the seat (maybe there's storage back there? Maybe it was on the seat, like a seat cover?). There were cutout rectangles on the furry thing on both sides of the back. Framed inside these cutouts where "Ron Paul for President" signs. The best part, though, was the LOUD BLASTING POLKA MUSIC blaring from his radio.

-Damn...there was something else I saw that was fun and would've completed this post, but now I can't recall what it was. I mean, something besides the weird punk-goth kids all wearing Zipcar.com company polo shirts and the lady who was maybe/probably a prostitute. Well, if I think of it I'll edit the post...