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 prexscriptions 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. (THIS ONE ALWAYS BUGGED ME!)
9. Only in America ......do we use the word "politics" to describe
the process so well: "oli" in Latin meaning "many" and "tics"
meaning "bloodsucking creatures".
10. Only in America ......do they have drive-up ATM machines with
Braille lettering.