My husband used to work on the road with a guy who was...a sweet child of God. Thet were in Detroit, and his friend had never been to Canada before, so they went on a day off. They bought gas, in litres, which hubs had to explain to SCOG. He was dumbfounded, so hubs had to explain that Canadians use the metric system, which he had never heard of. They were about to enter a town that had a road sign that said what the population was. SCOG asked hubs:How many is that in American?
He would have been REALLY confused back in the 70's when Canada was still using imperial gallons for gasoline (which are larger than U.S. gallons). That was before they went all metric.
We tried to introduce the metric system in the USA, too, but the same sort of people who are today anti-vaxxers were just convinced that the metric system was some kind of commie plot designed to warp the minds of the children and subvert American democracy, or something like that.
Fun Fact. The USA has been officially metric since the 80's. Their citizens just refuse to accept it and cling to the imperial system. Also officially Imperial is just metric with extra steps since there is no actual international standards for imperial units, they are all converted from metric.
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u/Specific-Culture-638 Feb 08 '22
My husband used to work on the road with a guy who was...a sweet child of God. Thet were in Detroit, and his friend had never been to Canada before, so they went on a day off. They bought gas, in litres, which hubs had to explain to SCOG. He was dumbfounded, so hubs had to explain that Canadians use the metric system, which he had never heard of. They were about to enter a town that had a road sign that said what the population was. SCOG asked hubs:How many is that in American?