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 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.
This one I have to agree with
don't you love America
Only in America... can you admit that you need glasses to drive and don't use them, and still get your driver's licence.
(That is actually a true story.)
i do love america.. but i just find it realy hillarious that we do these kinds of things
Only in America a parent can blame all their kids problems on tv.
only in America do pets eat better than some humans...
only in america do we elect a president so we can laugh at how he pronounces some words
Only in america do we eat nothing but fast food and wonder why we're gaining weight
maybe this should be under the community games.
Only in America are we so pathetic that we spend hours on forums like this hitting the refresh button waiting for someone to post. (or is that just me?)
Only in America do we promise the separation of church and state, but have "In God We Trust" printed on the national currency and only exempt certain religions from the taxes.
Only in America do we have a history of drafting people that can't legally drink. Come on uncle Sam! Give a guy a break!
Only in America do we tell people not to drink and drive, but tempt them all with billboards at the side of the road advertising the forbidden alcoholic hooch.
Only in America do we have pride in open diversity;
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" ...
Then gripe about the homeless immigrants and treat them as unwelcome vermin. WTH?
only in america is it illegal to commit suicide
Only in america do muslims work at burger joints
Only in America can a Korean doctor work in a laudramat
Only in America do we teach multiple languages in school, have English as our only national language, but have to 'press one for English' on EVERY automated answering device.
Only in America does our food need be nourishing but entertaining as in many part of the world people strave.
only in america do we have people who work as cashiers at famous fast food restaurants who dont know a word of english or how to count money
Only in America do we have alot people with suburban America dream of house with a lawn and white picketfence but there more people with the dream than there are available land.
That was terrible, vir
Only in America do people by $60,000 cars and live in a one bedroom apartment.
Only in America do we have redundant jobs to keep people employed... cashiers in stores with self scan stations that have automated change dispensers, speed stations that take a picture of the offender and register their speed and officers still pull people over for speeding in these spots.
Only in America does there exist a system designed to protect children from being abused/neglected that has a quota of kids required to be taken from homes... forcing kids out of healthy environments and into a system that has abusive foster parents and an ability to adopt the children out if they are in custody for 15 months. But, meanwhile the mortality rate due to abuse keeps rising and kids are left helpless in places where actual abuse goes unnoticed.
Only in America do we have the right to vote a moron into office, but no right to vote him out midterm.
only in america do we have age limits for some places like websites or buying alcohol through self serve cashregisters and the only thing they have to do to prove their age is answer this question "are you over 18? yes or no"
only in america is where you can buy a house you can't pay for.
Only in America are we free to judge the daylights out of a person living honestly who defends their child against a violent mob of people by bearing arms(supposed to be a right in this country, but _I_ saved my daughter from about 30 people and got charged and fined for it) and barely makes ends meet without using welfare to get by, while drug dealers and frauds that lie to the system to get multiple incomes to live in abundance are innocent until proven guilty. wth
Only in America do you have the ability to break laws in your home all the time and have the right to keep the authorities out(unless they have a warrant) to save your stash from being confiscated while your sorry *ss gets tossed in the slammer.
Only in America do violent sex offenders get early release, still have their 'organs' intact while their victims live in fear for the rest of their lives because of what they did.
Only in America can you get raped and get violated a second time by a legal system set up to protect the criminals, by being treated like the guilty party and undergoing painful 'evidence collecting' procedures. Meanwhile, the offender gets away with it by way of a loophole in the law.
Only in America do we work so hard for freedom that we end up in a police state.