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.