Nguyễn Thu Trang
(musketeerlady)
Thành viên danh dự
Only in America ...
... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
... 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.
... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
....do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
... 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.
... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
... do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Ever Wonder ...
... why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
... why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
... why "abbreviated" is such a long word?
... why doctors call what they do "practice"?
... why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made
with real lemons?
... why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?
... why the time of day with the slowest traffic is called rush hour?
... why there isn't mouse-flavored cat food?
... why Noah didn't swat those two mosquitoes?
... why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
... why they don't make the whole airplane out of that indestructible black box material?
... why sheep don't shrink when it rains?
Well, with all that said, only in Vietnam:
.... Lines for foreigners in a traffic accidents:
"You were on the wrong side!"
"I was trying to avoid that bicycle/truck/infant/ox!"
"I was blowing my horn!"
"It was my road!!!"
... Framed photos of Baby Spice. (But none of the other Spice Girls.)
... Two backpackers' cafés facing each other, both with notices in their windows saying the other is a FAKE and will RIP YOU OFF DON'T GO THERE DON'T LET THEM DO IT!!!
... Little boys tending shops filled with cognac, pig snouts, durians, jars of Tang, and cartons upon cartons of cigarettes.
... A girl in the window of a ground-floor apartment, sitting alone on a couch with a microphone, quietly singing to her karaoke machine.
... A very old woman with at least 50 dozen eggs stacked atop her bicycle.
Copyrighted to a very very old website, who probably steals it from some other website, who steals it from another one.
Anything to add on?
... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance.
... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink.
... 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.
... do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.
....do banks leave both doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.
... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.
... 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.
... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.
... do we use the word 'politics' to describe the process so well: 'Poli' in Latin meaning 'many' and 'tics' meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
... do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.
Ever Wonder ...
... why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?
... why women can't put on mascara with their mouth closed?
... why "abbreviated" is such a long word?
... why doctors call what they do "practice"?
... why lemon juice is made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made
with real lemons?
... why the man who invests all your money is called a broker?
... why the time of day with the slowest traffic is called rush hour?
... why there isn't mouse-flavored cat food?
... why Noah didn't swat those two mosquitoes?
... why they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?
... why they don't make the whole airplane out of that indestructible black box material?
... why sheep don't shrink when it rains?
Well, with all that said, only in Vietnam:
.... Lines for foreigners in a traffic accidents:
"You were on the wrong side!"
"I was trying to avoid that bicycle/truck/infant/ox!"
"I was blowing my horn!"
"It was my road!!!"
... Framed photos of Baby Spice. (But none of the other Spice Girls.)
... Two backpackers' cafés facing each other, both with notices in their windows saying the other is a FAKE and will RIP YOU OFF DON'T GO THERE DON'T LET THEM DO IT!!!
... Little boys tending shops filled with cognac, pig snouts, durians, jars of Tang, and cartons upon cartons of cigarettes.
... A girl in the window of a ground-floor apartment, sitting alone on a couch with a microphone, quietly singing to her karaoke machine.
... A very old woman with at least 50 dozen eggs stacked atop her bicycle.
Copyrighted to a very very old website, who probably steals it from some other website, who steals it from another one.
Anything to add on?