The bottom of Manitoba is marked off in gridlines of miles, in both directions; so there is a "mile-road" headed in the four cardinal directions, at every intersection...... Farmers all own sections of 640 acres, or portions of sections, usually no smaller than a quarter section, which is 160 acres. So in the coffee shop, you will rarely hear the word hectare. Hectares is a bad word around here.
When a farmer applys herbicide, the directions may call for so many liters or kgs per hectare; but the farmer has to convert it to a real number, like liters per acre, cuz his section is divided into acres, but his measuring cup may be in gallons.
Airplanes run out of gas, because the wrong system was used to measure it.
When we drive somewhere;
to town is 8 miles ..... cuz we count them as we go.
The hospital is 22 miles,
the cop-shop is 13 miles,
and the fire-hall is "a stones throw", literally.
The speed limit is still 60mph, they just call it 100kph.
I still do my oil changes at every 3000 miles, cuz the car drives miles as proven by the mile-roads; they just call it 5000km
My odo reads in kms, but nobody knows what a km is. We do however know how to convert it to miles.
Fuel mileage is still converted to mpgs, cuz everybody knows we all drive miles, as proven by the counting of the mile-roads, and a liter is so small it takes over 22 of them to fill 5 gallon Jerry-can.
Honestly, we here locally, now have a two-measurement system. The one that the government mandates. And the ones we commoners still commonly use.
When I have my breakfast, I use a tablespoon. When I have dessert, I use a teaspoon. A shotglass is still a shot. A cup is a cup. A quart sealer is still what it is. Combines and granaries are still bushels. And any ICE-engine is rated in horsepower, as are electric motors.
I buy my butter in 1 pound bricks now called 454s
My milk now comes in a 4liter jug, but it's really just a relabeled gallon Imp.
A can of pop is labeled 355ml, but everyone knows it's in the same container that used to be labeled 12 ounces.
And the daymn clock has the same 12 hourly divisions as it ever it had. And a new Day still starts at the ridiculous time of midnight, which everybody knows is the Third Watch of the Night; and the day will not actually arrive until another five or six hours later. I mean who foisted this wackiness on us.....
Oh wait, lemmee guess; could it have been ......... Science?
I knew our country was doomed, when I saw those in charge, sell our identity to the metric world.
It only took ONE generation.
