I may have not made clear that the Liberian gentleman worked for the Swedish company in Liberia. He worked for the Mexican-American's company here in Atlanta. Norm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman Werling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2001March30 20:04 Subject: [USMA:11968] Re: Liberia > Joe and all, > > I will reiterate my story about the estimator (at a concrete block and brick > mason subcontractor for which I did some accounting last year) was from > Liberia. He worked there for a Swedish company and all of his work, > including the blueprints from which he worked, were in metric. He admitted > that there was still plenty of FFU around but he was very prometric. He > wished that the US would just change and have it over with so that he could > work with it all the time. > > Ironically, the owner of the subcontracting company came from Mexico 15-20 > years ago and acted as if he had forgotten everything that he had ever > learned about metric. He expressed fear of ever having to change to metric > in the US. > > Norm Werling
