Several years ago, doctor office in NYC during physical, the nurse measured my weight and then I saw her taking a calculator and converting to kilograms as software had these as an input. A few years later, another physical and that office used pounds. A few months ago I applied for passport, form had field for height where I entered height in cm. Person at the desk told me that they won't accept it but I insisted it to be sent that way. Anyway, application was not declined, but passport came back with non-metric units written in it. That is where it makes the least sense, as passport is here to be readable my all other countries... all other that don't use feet and inches.
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 11:42 PM 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 > -- youtube.com/c/TechGuy1
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