Bill Sykes' Newsletter from America.
(April 2002)
An ex-Brit gives his views-(without fear
or favor)---of the American Scene
It must be pretty obvious to the discerning reader,
that as I publish each of these news letters at the beginning
of the month, a majority of the news items, are from the
previous month. (In this case, the news and comments are
for the month of March, 2002).
 Only
in America.
(Observations from an unknown source).
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Only in America---can a pizza get to your house faster
than an ambulance.
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Only in America----are there handicap parking spaces
in front of a skating rink.
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Only in America----do drug stores make the sick walk
all the way to the back of the store to pick up their
prescriptions whilst healthy people can purchase cigarettes
just after walking in the door.
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Only in America---do people order double cheeseburgers,
large French fries, and a "DIET" coke.
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Only in America---do banks leave both doors to the
vault open and chain the pens to the counter.
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Only in America---do people leave expensive automobiles
in their driveways and fill their garages with useless
junk.
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Only in America---do people use telephone answering
machines to screen calls, and then have call waiting
so that they won't miss a call from someone they don't
want to talk to in the first place.
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Only in America---do people buy hot dogs in packages
of ten and buns in packages of eight.
There are so many other anomalies in the American way
of life that I'm sure they would fill a book. Surely someone
out there has written such a book.
We welcome feedback about any of the contents
of these newsletters. Please send all correspondence to
bill_sykes@huddersfield1.co.uk
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