[USMA:36566] Re: USMA digest 2274

[Mike Millet]

Sadly what Ivan says is true. Many cashiers are stumped by ten percent discounts. I have also heard the "come to the US and be prepared to use inches/feet" line.

I have noticed an uptick in metric measures among some of the younger age groups (referring to soda cans in mL and such) but when asked the people just say " Well I use it because it's easier to think in tens instead of some odd measurement" . This is true, but I'm beginning to wonder if this has less to do with simplicity and more to do with the population as a whole having trouble counting past ten ;).

Mean of me I know. I'll go sit in the corner now ;)


Mike
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