I do not make an issue of this and have been reporting my height and mass either way as I felt like it at the doctor/hospital visits here in Connecticut, no problem, but with my memory slowly failing I now resorted to the easy way - 170/70. Just hope that my first number will not be shrinking and the second growing. Stan
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:56 PM Brian White <[email protected]> wrote: > They probably just marked it down as “two feet”. > > > On Sep 26, 2019, at 20:42, James R. Frysinger <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I went to a routine podiatry appointment (diabetic foot care) in Sparta > TN today. Sparta has a population of just over 5000 people and it's the > county seat of White County, in Middle Tennessee. > > > > When asked for my height and weight I gave them in meters and kilograms > and they were recorded without a flinch. Now, I cannot say that the staff > didn't convert those values later, but at least they didn't act like > they've never heard of metric units or thought that using them was strange. > Not bad for a small, country town. > > > > Jim > > > > -- > > James R. Frysinger > > 632 Stoney Point Mtn Rd > > Doyle TN 38559-3030 > > > > (C) 931.212.0267 > > (H) 931.657.3107 > > (F) 931.657.3108 > > _______________________________________________ > > USMA mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma >
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