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.
11. Only in America...can a homeless combat veteran live
in a cardboard
box and a draft dodger live in the White House.