Only in America

Only in America:

• 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 the driveway 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.

Even wonder:

• Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?
• Why is it that doctors call what they do "practice"?
• Why is it that to stop Windows, you have to click on "Start"?
• Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?
• Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?
• Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
• When dog food is new and improved tasting, who tests it?
• Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
• You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!
• Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?
• If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
• If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?