Ron, Perhaps you need to learn why we have measuring tools in the first place. Early man didn't have hardware stores with their free yardsticks. The "megalithic yard" of roughly 29" used in measuring out the prehistoric stone monuments was standardized early enough to put those lintels on top of Stonehenge (and several OTHER henges) pretty darned accurately. Those guys couldn't read or write, but they knew how to measure with their eyes and their bodies... 5,000 odd years ago. This is NOT an assumption about how people used their bodies. This is a cold hard FACT. Swallow it. A foot was... you guessed it! The size of someone's foot. Feet were paced off by putting them down heel to toe in a straight line. The cubit (you know what a cubit is... it is frequently mentioned in the Bible) is the length of a man's bent forearm from elbow to middle finger tip. In ancient Egypt (about the time of Exodus) this was close to 18" and is a very convenient measuring device. The Egyptians used it all the time (well, for 2-3000 years, until the Romans took over with their engineers). This is a fact and the evidence stands tall in pyramid after pyramid. Horses are still measured in hands. You know what a hand is? You have two of them. I can tell time with my hands and the position of the sun. Can you? Even those of us who were never in scouting learned some little survival tricks. The yard I've already mentioned, and I don't think we'll go into volumetric measurements... although heads and such are fascinating. I'm quite glad that you do not feel defective because you operate in a manner uniquely your own. I operate in my own way, as well. In a world of clones we each need something to distinguish ourselves. Otherwise society would be no more interesting than a bowl of guppies swimming in the same circle. Carolly