READERS Martin and Stephanie Burton had a disagreement about measurements when they were decorating their house. They wanted to put up a dado rail in their living room, so Stephanie measured up the space in feet and inches. But Martin pointed out that even in Britain “everything comes in metric these days”, so she measured it all again in centimetres.
When Stephanie got to the builder’s merchant, she asked for the length of wood and was promptly asked: “What’s that in feet and inches?” Luckily there was a calculator in the office, but they handed it to Stephanie because she was the only one who knew…
