Feb 14, 2006 14:43
1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster
than an ambulance.
2. Only in America......are there handicap parking places in
front
of a skating rink.
3. Only in America......do drugstores make the sick walk all
the
way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while
healthy
people can buy cigarettes at the front.
4. Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers,
large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and
then
chain the pens to the counters.
6. Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of
dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
7. Only in America......do we use answering machines to
screen
calls and then have call waiting so we won't miss a call from
someone
we didn't want to talk to in the first place.
8. Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten
and
buns in packages of eight.
9. Only in America......do we use the word politics to
describe
the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics'
meaning
bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines
with
Braille lettering.