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 people 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 cheese
burgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America...do banks leave safe 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.
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