[geeks] lazy thursday night

dave at cca.org dave at cca.org
Fri Mar 15 17:12:44 CST 2002


kurt at k-huhn.com writes:

>> Odd tidbit.  When i lived in the chicago area, most people related
>> distances in miles, and then when i moved to indiana, most related
>> distance in time.  (i.e. "it's a two hour ride to indianapolis", instead
>> of, "indianapolis is 125 miles away")  Do most of you indicate driving
>> distance in miles, or hours?

>Was brought up in the midwest, and hours is the normal scale to measure
>distance out there - at least it was.

>Here in RI, it's "minutes".

And that's on foot.

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