Measurements

He is always looking for ways to quantify things: height, weight, length, distance, etc. Typically His estimates are extremely inaccurate, but His unit choice is almost always correct: Distance from place to place is in miles (87 miles to Grandma's house), measurements of objects are in inches (a human finger is 47 inches long) and the amount of fluid is given in galleons (which, to the best of Our knowledge, is equivalent to a gallon). However, He recently caught Us both off guard when He tried to quantify a distance with shoes, in this case, "Could we get there with a million shoes?" To ease the math, I thought of each shoe as one foot and tried to continue the conversation with feet as the unit. Feeling, perhaps, that I was incapable of His requested calculation, He simplified it for Me and shrank the distance to inquire whether or not 11 shoes would span his room. Confident with my answer I exclaimed, "No, I think you would probably need 14 shoes." He was silent for a moment and seemed content with the math. She and I exchanged glances in recognition that we had apparently passed, and drove the remainder of the way home (roughly 4132 shoes).