We tried (Score 1)

The short answer is to just stop being so damn stubborn about it. I don't know why my fellow Americans have such a hard time with metric. It's just multiples of ten, much easier then all the odd numbers that we use. But when I reach for a ruler I automatically use the metric side, so maybe I'm just some sort of demented pervert. My idea is to have a "transitional period" in which all signs and whatnot should have both metric and imperial on them, and over years switch.