ONLY IN AMERICA
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.