Today as I was visiting my parents I found out they were measuring for a new set of blinds for our windows. It came out that the width of the blinds was 78 and 3/4 inch by 78 and 1/2 inch. Out of curiosity I went to google and converted this to find that it was actually a 2m by 2m blind (after you round a couple decimal places).
My parents were kind of shocked to find this out but my dad being a die hard construction person decided that it still made more sense to go by quarters or sixty fourths of the inch :). My mom however, has changed her mind and is now happily measuring things in SI for around the house stuff when possible because she realized that it just makes a smaller number. And besides, she's always hated fractions Mike -- "The boy is dangerous, they all sense it why can't you?"
