There are a few things I've noticed while over here in the UK that America needs to do to make the country better as a whole. Now before anyone gets all huffy, I do like America...well parts of it anyways, I just think it could use a bit of improvement in the way it does things.
1.) All stops lights should have the yellow light come on with the red light a few seconds before the light turns green. This would speed up traffic a bit because you could be ready to go as soon as the light turns green...although on second thought people in Michigan aren't good enough driver to handle that, there probably would be a ton of rear end collisions.
2.) We need a mass transit system that that doesn't make you cry when you get on it. I see no reason for ever needing to own a car over here, especially if I lived in a decent sized city. Buses run about every 5 minutes to parts of the city and every 15 minutes to London. Once in London you can take the tube where ever you want to go. If I could catch a city bus to school everyday I would even be able to explain to someone how much gas I could save.
3.) We need to ban smoking in all public places...this one doesn't need an explanation. I'm just going to tell you it's nice to go anywhere and not have to be around a ton of smokers.
4.) We need diesel powered cars. Come on they get 2 to 3 times more mpg's then petrol engined cars. Why don't we have them? Oh ya we think they are noisy, pollute, and smell bad...I can put your mind at ease, none of these are true.
5.) We need other coffee shops that aren't Starbucks. There are at least four different chains of coffee shops here other then Starbucks...and they are all cheaper.
6.) We need pedestrian zones were you can just walk about looking for stuff.
7.) We need parks, there is nothing more relaxing then taking a stroll through a park on a nice day...ok so I've done it once, but seriously this is England, they don't get nice days.
8.) We need Orange Coke, I'm serious people this stuff is awesome!
9.) We need to learn how to properly spell and say different words. I'm sorry the Queens English does sound more proper and after hearing some Americans from the south today it is pretty disgraceful. At least in the northern part of the Midwest we speak the standard dialect that is used on TV.
10.) We need credit cards with chips in them so you don't have to worry about the magnetic strip becoming wore out. Everyone here has a chipped credit card, it's weird when I try to use my debit card because they have no idea what to do with it.
See that wasn't so bad now was it? I mean even if American did half of these I'd be happy.
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