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the evil belly
10-04-2002, 11:47
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 cheese burgers, 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 they leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put useless junk in the garage.

7. Only in America......do they use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so they won't miss a call from someone they didn't want to talk to in the first place.

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

9. Only in America......do they 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.

pablo
31-01-2003, 19:26
Originally posted by the evil belly
1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

10. Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering. wow this is soo true , i remember when we were there , the ambulances went so slow , you would hear them ages before you'd see them , they would go about 30 mph in residential areas, you wouldn't want to be depending on them.

mairead
01-02-2003, 11:13
oh those slambulances...... and they'd make such a noise, you'd think there was a nuclear war REALLY REALLY loud sirens completely dramatic and you'd look around waiting for a blue light to flash past and leave you blind and deaf from the sonic boom but no...... putt putt putt putt putt putt putt