oh okay well i am sorry to do this to you um i don't know if you  explained this is part of a fund raiser for the church
 	
 	
 		yeah
 		yeah i remember it it's just like what do i know about the metric system
 	
 	
 		yeah well i don't know anything so um you know we can just kind of wing it but if you're ready i'll push one and we can start and
 	
 	
 		
 
 	
 	
 		lately their bank has been so full that they've been cutting us off after about three to five minutes so it it won't be anything like the
 	
 	
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 		i don't know why the last effort failed i i know that it's very hard to get people to change
 		to do different things i think the metric system is so convenient because it's in multiples of ten um but it's just hard
 		to switch everything over England managed to do it uh
 	
 	
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 		i know the whole world has managed to be doing metric system and we're just left out in the middle of nothing and then having to do the conversions that uh the rest of the world doesn't have to do
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		which makes it more difficult in trading and and that type of thing
 		as far as going back and forth between the two
 	
 	
 		i don't know if they um tried before if there were any way that they could offer incentives to corporations that switched uh
 		i don't even really know where to they would begin i mean certainly um it's already being taught in the schools
 	
 	
 		yeah the schools need to do more widespread um you touch it a little here and there and but you're never explained really explained to it all and
 		and actually even in the science classes though a lot of times um the metric system is used rather than
 		um
 		the American system
 	
 	
 		um-hum well it is a a an universal system now uh
 	
 	
 		that we use
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		i uh
 		and some ways it's like the idea of the alternative school calendar uh the way our calendar set up
 		goes back to uh the days when we were primarily an agricultural country and people they needed the kids home to help with the farming and planting
 		again the rest of the world
 		it has it has already adopted has always had a uh what we call an alternative calendar with more breaks throughout the year and a shorter summer vacation uh
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		and and gradually as things try and uh and
 		using that as a parallel i know different districts are trying first with you know one or two schools and then some districts have converted uh
 		maybe there's some areas that they could start a conversion like maybe at the gas pumps that would be one way maybe they need to do it in stages
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		uh
 	
 	
 		i think the most logical way is just to educate very severely or very uh
 		try very hard in the education system and starting with the young eventually eventually they grow old and they take a while to do it that way but um since it's just right now touched on the education system the more that it's used
 		um and it's impressed upon the children the more comfortable they'll feel with it um i don't feel very comfortable with the metric system even though i was exposed to it
 		um but if they did even so even more than they are now eventually um
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		it would gain popularity as they grow older and they could switch over more easily the more people they have that's trained on the metric system rather than our system
 	
 	
 		um and actually the metric system itself isn't so difficult it's the conversion that's difficult and um
 	
 	
 		right
 		exactly
 	
 	
 		that's what um i look at it from uh
 		trying to feed families from old recipes and things having i i have friends in England and Germany and when they give me recipes it's hard because they do things in grams and um you know their whole measuring system is different and
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		um
 		i think that's been an area of resistance but i think your idea of uh
 		starting through the schools and working with the kids um certainly easier growing up with it it's easier to learn something when you are young than to relearn and uh
 	
 	
 		right but much easier so and i always had a hard time converting converting it's like why can't we just all do it the same what's the purpose of switching back and forth why are we different
 	
 	
 		yeah
 		well i don't know why the effort failed before but i have a feeling that it may have been businesses it would be costly for them to convert over um especially some of the
 		manufacturing industries all the machines they have um to have to convert over to centimeters although several things uh
 		already are i know my husband has tools for the car that he has to use