Only in America

  • … Can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
  • … Are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
  • … Do people order double cheese burgers, a large fry, and a diet coke.
  • … Do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
  • … Do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and leave useless things and junk in boxes in the garage.
  • … 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.
  • … Do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
  • … Do we use the word “politics” to describe the process so well: “Poli” in Latin meaning “many” and “tics” meaning “blood-sucking creatures.”
  • … 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.
  • … Do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.