List courtesy of the wonderful Katie
I Love America Because:
- People do not hoard coins and then sell them on the black market
- When Madonna has a concert, those going to the show don't park in the emergency lane of I-95 any other major US highway located close to the concert venue.
- You don't have to pay some rag carrying ¨guarda autos¨ to look after your car at night.
- Hosing off the sidewalk in front of your house with filtered water for twenty minutes every morning is not called ¨cleaning¨ it´s called wasting hundreds of gallons of potable drinking water because you and your fellow citizens haven´t been taught how to use a garbage can or an ashtray.
- You don't have to unlock the toilet paper every time you use the bathroom in a US office building.
- The amphibious Nike sandals never made it onto the NYC fashion circuit (thank god).
- Taxi drivers don't go on strike because they are mad that the number of people who take cabs has dropped dramatically since….well, the stock market crashed and we entered a world recession.
- Graffiti (or stenciling as they call it here) is not art; it's the defacement of property.
- Ham and cheese in not considered vegetarian.
- Men don´t drink diet coke.
- Selling stolen paintbrushes and remote controls on the train and subway is not considered ¨making a living, ¨ it's called robbery.
- The only people who drink Fanta and other orange soda like liquids are 5 year olds at birthday parties.
- Empanadas are not a food group.
- Men wear suits to work because they have to, not because they want to.
- Having a bachelor's degree does not give you the right to be a professor at an accredited university.
- Just because you graduate law school does not mean you are a lawyer. Same goes for someone who studied chemistry in undergrad is not a chemist DAMMIT!
- People go to work
- Parsianas don´t exist.
- Stoplights mean something
- Miracle, Sun and Jesus are not names of your children.
- In a pharmacy, you don't have to go to three counters and speak to four different people before you are allowed to purchase a box of tampax.
- Not everyone is catholic.
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