I'd warrant this happens thousands of times every day here in the U.S.
No one understands metric, but even less, people don't understand inch pound
units.
Michael Payne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, 09 November 2007 20:31
Subject: [USMA:39695] metric conversion
You will get a smile out of this true-life story.
Today as I walked through my company's mail room, I noticed the shipping
clerk peering at a computer screen with the banner "Metric Conversion." I
immediately stopped to watch her convert pounds to kilograms for some
foreign destination. But no! She was converting pounds to ounces, and a
web
site was helping her do the math.
"If you just used kilograms," I pointed out, "you could do the math in
your
head."
