Only in America...

[Tombstone]

An old but accurate list!

Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

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.

Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

Only in America......do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

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.

Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

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."

Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

[capt_buzzard]

WOW. And the rest of us follows America, Even those that Cry they don't like the American ways or their culture,heritage, history and their politics. GOD BLESS AMERICA. :-6

[Hawke]

Only in America......do people order double cheese burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke.

-True. Seen it.

Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

-True. The ATM machine nearest my residence fits this exactly. I'll have to get a picture up.

Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

-True. And very, very annoying.

[persephone]

Tombstone wrote: Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.If it's an ice rink do the change the wheels on wheelchairs for skates.

If it's a roller rink they already have wheels... I see nothing wrong with that :wah: