I pulled off my shoes and socks, stretching out on the floor. I was exhausted. But, my mind was randomly swirling over several thoughts. Such as, how many meters are in a mile.
I was wiggling my toes and fingers feeling the coolness of the air. It was pleasant. I smiled.
“What are you doing?”
“Thinking…..”
“What about?” Only a female would ask such a question. Guys don’t think about anything unless they have to. Why can’t she figure this out? I can’t possibly tell her how cool the air was against my toes!
“How many meters are in a US mile.”
“I don’t know.” Not like I was asking. She had asked what I was thinking about! I was already at the point of despair on this idea. If there are 1,000 meters is a kilometer and a kilometer is 5/8 of a mile, with a mile being 5,280 feet. Then, 5/8 of 5,280 would tell me what portion of a mile an individual meter was. That number then …… My brain was swirling.
“Is a meter 39 inches?” Perhaps I should be using a different tact.
“Maybe.” She sounded bored with my mental activity. Guess not what she was looking for. Should I have gone with the cool air on my toes originally? I closed my eyes again to concentrate on the problem at hand.
“So, three inches difference per meter, 2 kilometers would be 10/8 miles, or 1.25 kilometers per mile, or 1,250 meters, then…” Darn it! Multiplying apples and oranges again!
Why had I even started on this task? I didn’t remember any longer! What on earth could I have been thing about that made this so import? Oh yah, how many meters in a mile. So, if my longest shot last year was 1,600 meters, is that a mile or over a mile?
The computation was killing my brain. Something was wrong with my tact but I could not figure out what it was. When I awoke, eight hours later, I found a warm Jack Russell butted up to my stomach snoring soundly, his chew bone buried under my very stiff arm pit. But, now I knew that 1250 is less than 1600 – so I exceeded a mile…
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