it's a small world

I don't know if you have ever been to the UK (or anywhere in Europe for that matter), but everything here is so small. I'm talking everything - from the taxi's to men's pants to a jar of mustard. Perhaps my eyes and size-referencing have become accustomed to oversized everything in the US, but I have found it to be a uniquely interesting facet of daily life here.  I actually feel like a normal sized-adult, rather than the very short-statured adult I felt to be in the US. In that regard, I like it!

Now I know most of the world uses the standard metric system and the US is the one of the few outliers, but I am having a difficult time adjusting to this new measurement system. For one thing, the metric system makes it sound like you are getting more for your money - who wouldn't want to buy a box of cereal for 4 quid that contained a whopping 500 grams and is called the Value Pack!?! In actuality, that is precisely 17.63 oz for a $6.40 US-equivalent box of Special K. I am embarrassed to say this, but it has taken me until this week to realize the following: You pay ALOT for a little here.  I couldn't see this at the beginning because you could go and buy orange juice for 2.00 quid - comparable to the US, that is about $3.20. But, here is where the fun begins - one is paying 2.00 quid for 1L of oj. That's $3.20 for a small QUART of standard oj.  I have previously been equating product to product, rather than product size to product size. Lesson #1 (well, now that I am officially counting)

Even the people are little:

On a side note, I met a woman today at Whittard's whose son and daughter-in-law live in Wynnewood, PA. And she works at Drexel! Talk about small world...