I wish I could like the metric system. It is neat and orderly, with everything logically based on the assumption that we have ten fingers. I like the orderliness. I think the reason why the metric system never caught on here in the United Status, thereby causing the author to have to go back through his story and convert everything to pounds and feet instead of kilograms and meters, is the temperature scale. Distances are more orderly and more precisely measured using centimeters than inches, although feet are more precise then meters.
Milliliters are more precise than liquid ounces, grams are more precise than ounces and so on.
Although it makes more sense for the freezing point of water to be zero instead of 32, and it even makes sense for the boiling point of water to be measured at a nice round number like 100, choosing those two points as the anchors for the metric temperature system makes Celsius less accurate than Fahrenheit. Think about it. There are only 100 points between freezing and boiling water with the Celsius scale. Using the Fahrenheit scale, there are 180. That means that 20 degrees Celsius can be either 68 or 69, and we all know that there is a big difference between 68 and 69 degrees.