I'll bet the blood they took from you was measured in milliliters but they told you pints. Did you ask them what pint that would be? 473 mL is a pint and 450 mL is what the bag holds. Just think you can become a gallon donor by giving only 3600 mL of blood instead of 3800 mL, a savings to you of 200 mL.
Jerry ________________________________ From: Carleton MacDonald <carlet...@comcast.net> To: U.S. Metric Association <usma@colostate.edu> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 9:12:02 PM Subject: [USMA:43697] Re: 24 hour time The Red Cross came to work a couple of weeks ago for a blood drive. I was the first one in, and went to the booth to have the pre-donation discussion. The worker asked my weight [sic] and I told it to him in kilograms, telling him (truthfully) that I don't know it any other way. (The scale at home shows kg only.) He grumbled and did a somewhat incorrect, though flattering, conversion. And this was a medical person. Dang. Carleton -----Original Message----- From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Hooper Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 16:41 To: U.S. Metric Association Subject: [USMA:43655] Re: 24 hour time On Mar 10 , at 2:38 PM, Stephen Mangum wrote: > How does one read 1776-07-04? Easy! One reads it "1776 July 4". What's the problem? For a recent medical problem, I answered questions including my birthdate numerous times. I always said "1935 July 15" and no one ever asked me to clarify that. I don't delude myself; I think most of them wrote "July 15, 1935" but it certainly was not unclear to them the way I said it. I gave my height in centimetres and mass in kilograms, too, by the way. No problem! Bill Hooper 74 kg body mass* Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA * plus or minus a kilogram or so.
