What's this white, powdery stuff?

[Fittisize]

5280.

See, that's much too complicated to figure out how many feet are in long distances. How many feet in 27 miles? I could figure it out, but I'd first have to grab a calulator and do a calculation...and by that time too much time will have passed.

See, in 27 km, there is 2,700 meters. Much easier to convert.

And yet another reason why the metric system kicks ass. :p