B
That's right, it's all their fault.
A
Well, I mean, it's more our fault than theirs at this point because they, they saw the light, um, I don't know why they we-, um, were more able than we were except I think, that they probably just said well, we're just going to start using the things now and you sort of have to force people to change since they don't want to.
B
Of course, being part of the European community, if everybody else did it they, they were probably much more, is much more necessary for them than for us.
A
That's true, that's, that's probably true and America does have a long history of sort of doing things our own way rather than adopting, you know, some other model.
B
There's an expression for that, With eyes on the past, backing confidently into the future.
A
I've never heard that one, that's very nice. Oh, so I'm all for the metric system and converting over and I think, I guess, my feeling is the way to do it is, is to just start giving weights, you know, have a very brief transition period and then just start giving weights and kilometers, er, just as in kilometers and weights and kilograms and everything like that and, uh, just have people start using it rather than having people constantly trying to convert. Remember me getting a package of something that said one pound, this is a package of dates mind you, it's, was, presumably something you weigh fairly precisely, it said one pound and then in parenthesis it said four hundred fifty-four point six grams.