Things Found Only In America

[Tara]

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 to the vault 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: Polio' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking
creatures'.
10.Only in America...do they have drive-up ATM machines with
Braille lettering.