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
> >
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> > (H) 931.657.3107
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