Ahem. The extra 1.6 km, you mean. ;-)
that's exactly what he would say - with that maniacal grin of his.
he used to run the annual christmas bonfire. he had a wonderful time running around getting things ready, etc. took him all year to amass enough wood to suit him. big pile. safety issues preculdes him from continuation, something we're all sorry for.
he never got anything extra for it, but he did so love making things work.
he tried an alcoholfree oktoberfest once. goe me hooked on bratwurst, but there were only a few people who attended.
Meters for Yards, Kilometers for Miles, Kilograms for Pounds.......next thing you know, it will be Esperanto for English.
This has to stop.
Yeah, that "metric" system is real standard:
but do you mean ISO metric, DIN metric, or JIS metric?
Where we've adopted the metric system in this country, it's been the ISO system, in which the fasteners, for example are generally incompatible with DIN (German) and JIS (Japanese) metric fasteners.
As an engineer and a scientist, I use the Imperial system exclusively, and whenever I need to convert, why, there's always a calculator handy.