Inches I like

I like my inches, they always made total sense to me and I think that that's because learned imperial measuring as a young child. Inches made me think, and I think the more in fractions of inches and then there is the foot distance and yard too. I picture distance in yards and miles. In my culture, imperial has been a common thing. I take it for granted as standard to me. I look at sixty-fourths of an inch and see an increment, a percentage of that inch that fits into it sixty-four times, but then a half-inch with thirty-two increments in it, or eight thirty-seconds of an inch in it, at quarter of an inch with sixteen in it or8/32nds of an inch in it. What's to fault that, anyway?Sense comes in many ways. Remember, at aged fourteen, my headmaster told my parents, "Paul can never be educated." This man thought you could cane and strap education into children who didn't learn at the same rate or in the same way as all the other children did. He used a wide leather strap to drive his…