Only In America

[Kim]

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 cheeseburgers, large
fries, and a diet coke.

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

Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
thedriveway 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.

[Ilya]

[Sleepy Weasel]

Takes fucking forever for me to get a pizza delivered.

[Kyace]

polits - latin root word meaning or refering to a city.

Riiight, they don't have politics in Canada?

[Wil]

Takes fucking forever for me to get a pizza delivered.

Maybe the ambulance service is just really bad.

[Superted]

o.0 You can buy cigarettes from the front of a store? Here they're always behind counter, well I've always seen them behind counter anyway.

The cheeseburger one made me laugh the most.

[Arikel]

:cowboy:




Nice one ^-^ !

[Sleepy Weasel]

o.0 You can buy cigarettes from the front of a store? Here they're always behind counter, well I've always seen them behind counter anyway.

The cheeseburger one made me laugh the most.

the counter is at the front of the store.

[Theif of Time]

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tryed doing that in square brackets and it tells me the message I have written is too short... please write at least 2 characters.

[ZeUs!!]

the counter is at the front of the store.

We don't sell cigarettes in pharmacies

[Ephemeral]

Although cute enough be water fountain fodder, when you really think about this stuff.....


Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an
ambulance.
In the average size town there are many, many places that delivery pizza and usually only one or two hospitals.

Only in America......are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
ADA laws are weird, but isn't it a sign of a good society that we care enough to want to help the disadvantaged?

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.
Perhaps this is because there are usually a group of people standing around waiting for their prescritptions, that they be at the back of store and not blocking the front check out area?

Only in America......do people order double cheeseburgers, large
fries, and a diet coke.
Is freedom of choice a bad thing?

Only in America......do banks leave both doors open and then chain
the pens to the counters.
People come in, grab the pen, use it, and then forget it isn't thier own and walk away with it, leaving other customers without one. I am pretty sure that is hard to do with a door.

Only in America......do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in
the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
'Useless junk' is also called 4 wheelers, boats, riding lawnmowers, tillers, pressure washers, tools, washer and dryers, etc. Based strictly upon dollar value, these can easily total more than the car.

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.
Perhaps people use answering machines to screen calls from people they don't want to talk to, and use call waiting so they won't miss a call from someone they want to talk to.

Only in America......do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in
packages of eight.
If this is an issue, then some smart company will market a package of 8 hot dogs and/or 10 buns. Surely we don't want or need a law to force an open market ecomony into make different companies to be in sync like this.

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'.
As Kyace pointed out, this is not correct.

Only in America......do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille
lettering.
Again, ADA laws sometimes requires silly things like this. But in the balance, it is should be a good thing that a society cares about the disadvantaged. Surely we don't want to make the laws even more complex by writing in all the exceptions.

[Jeansi]

We don't sell cigarettes in pharmacies

Wonder, why. I mean it seems so logical!

edit: Eph, I think the point with the "politics" thing wasn't even supposed to be serious. The actual word politics comes from greek, not latin. Polis, meaning city, combined with polites, meaning citizen built up a word "politikos" (affairs of the state). Later on this word was taken into latin as a direct word for modern politics.

The funny quote with poli + tics worked better when some more or less famous guy who's name I cannot remember, said it as a joke to someone. The word for a plural is poly as you probably know but when pronounced they become the same (freaky english pronunciation rules that make no sence...)

don't kill me if I've gotten any of this wrong, please

[R1pp3r]

You forgot this one..
Only in America......can a homeless combat veteran live in a cardboard box and a draft dodger live in the White House.

[Jeansi]

You forgot this one..
Only in America......can a homeless combat veteran live in a cardboard box and a draft dodger live in the White House.
Only USA has a white house

fixed, eph style.

[R1pp3r]

fixed, eph style.

Witty.