You Know You are not in America When... (Part 1)

• When your three year old's has daily fits because mom shut of the power in the house and she can’t watch her morning movie…
  
• When your teenage sons would rather play soccer outside then watch a movie or play a computer game inside
• When your 13-year-old daughter asks why one of her brothers is getting fatter. After it is explained to her it was because he sat around in bed for 6-weeks after breaking his leg. Her response was, I too want to sit around for a month and eat and not exercise so I can get fat...
• When your teenagers would rather watch a Jackie Chan movie for the third time, then a new action movie...
• When walking down the street you know people are looking at you, talking about you, you do not understand what they are saying, and you are NOT paranoid...
• When you chase chickens out of your yard on a daily basis...
• When you have a huge cement wall lined with barbed wire around your property and house...
• When nudity on the side of the road is a common sight...
• When your neighbor ask for sandals, food, and laundry soap instead of the ol' cup of sugar...
• When you spend the day bleaching water reservoirs verses raking leaves...

• When after 2 weeks, 6 mechanics, 12 borrowed tools and $1500.00 in parts, the engine problem on your SUV is still not fixed...
• When you can’t even attend your local church without people coming to you sharing needs of fees in schools, medical bills, rent due, need of basic food, water, or clothing and asking you to meet those needs...
• When your 10-year-old daughter goes running and dancing through the house excited because her dad gave her $.35 for school...