Next time I ***** about the cold, rain, snow

The U.S. was supposed to switch over as well but they changed their minds at the last minute. Yes we use the metric system but if you're buying lumber we still use the standard measurement. But one good think is when we changed over to metric the government paid us guys to buy a new tool box as well for the extra tools required but had to buy the equivalent in tools. So for example, if you bought $400 dollars worth of metric tools they would pay $400 towards a new tool box. I took advantage of that, good deal.
During the changeover it could be very confusing though. I did a lot of trim work so you knew what tools you needed to replace a dash part so you'd get the tools needed and crawl under the dash to find out you needed metric instead of standard. It was a pain in the ***.