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.