Only in America...

[danball1976]

As seen on irc.mircx.com on channel #animeone

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
4. Only in America.....do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
5. Only in America.....do banks leave both 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: 'Poll' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
10. Only in America.....do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

[Leonardo]

:D

[GnomeWizardd]

The last one has had me thinking for the longest time

[Templar]

Gnomewizardd had this to say
The last one has had me thinking for the longest time

It might be explainable if they were on the passenger's side, but NO, they're on the driver's side. American convenience :p

[shwaip]

Gnomewizardd had this to say
The last one has had me thinking for the longest time

I'm willing to bet they have one "standard" atm that they use for both the walk-up and drive-up atm's. It's prolly much easier to have one process for making both than a specified one for the drive-up.

[CyrixInstead]

;D Very funny.

Actually, some of those happen in Britain too - Numbers 4 & 8!!

~Cyrix

[TheSmJ]

1. Only in America......can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.

Depends on the hospital, and your proximity from either it, or the place where you order the pizza from. At least we have a healthcare system. How long do you think it would take to get an ambulance in Iraq, or any 3rd world country, wartime or not?

2. Only in America.....are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

This has to do with keeping laws "simple, stupid". If they had a way around the "handicapped spaces" law, a good lawyer would be able to get anyplace that's willing to get rid of them exempt.
So the rule is, it it’s a public place, you need handicapped spaces a specific distance from the door, the number of spaces depending on the total capacity of the establishment.


3. Only in America.....do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their

"No pain, no gain."

4. Only in America.....do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Depends on the person, not the country in which they live. Some people like diet coke more than regular. My parents for instance... I cant stand the stuff.

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

They do this so they don’t get lost.

6. Only in America.....do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Most people don’t like to display junk, let alone on the driveway. Your new Benz, on the other hand…

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.

Sometimes people want to screen calls, sometimes people don’t, and sometimes people want something to answer the phone when they're not able to pick up.



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

Yeah, that's weird now that you mention it, but it's not exactly country specific. Hell, if you want to talk about stupid products, look at China/Japan!

9. Only in America.....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poll' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

A lot of words would sound funny if you split them into pieces, and examined each portion under more than one language.

10. Only in America.....do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Cause they're mass-produced, and they use the same components for both drive through, and walk-up ATMs.




Yeah, so today’s been one of those days… ;)

[Kwitko]

Adding on to what Skim Milk said:

2. Only in America.....are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.

Did it ever occur to the idiots that put this list together that someone who requires handicapped parking might be dropping off a child who isn't handicapped? And since when does parking in handicapped=not able to skate?

9. Only in America.....do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poll' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.

Too bad the writer of this list got this completely wrong. The etymology of politics is from the latin word for citizen. And even if you break it apart as 'poli' and 'tics', 'poli' doesn't mean many, 'poly' does. 'Tics' are involuntary muscle twitches. Ticks are bloodsucking creatures.

[GnomeWizardd]

Yea but down here all the walk up one are touch screen no brail

[Leonardo]

Man, you guys are taking this too seriously! It's humor (or humour). ;D