>Decimilisation of our currency was a huge boost to inflation. I never saw the benefit. its supposed to make calculations simpler but I never saw a lot of people struggling with 12 pennies in a shilling, the threepenny bit, the sixpence, the half crown (two shillings and sixpence), the florin (two shillings). That was proper money.

And we still use the expression "old money" in amusing ways, eg "Today it will be 25 degrees C - that's 77 in old money"

I found the opposite to inflation after the change-over. For instance, prices quoted at just below the rounded pound, to sound cheaper, such as 19s and 11d became 99p, thus saving 1.2 old pence.

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>>When Canada was making the change to the metric system, a lot of people were grumbling about it. The coworker of a friend of mine was very angry about it and she was actually heard to complain that "Next they're going to do it to our money!"
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>>>The best I've heard is "How many quarters are in the game", spoken by a Blonde at a football game.
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>>>>>I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I Gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me she was Educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the Money back... same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64.
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>>>>I've seen a few... a girl who measured 4 2/3 yards of fabric, and couldn't find it on the printed table taped to the table how much was it in decimal yards; it took her a few minutes but she eventually located it (.667 - even Walmart was generous enough to hire someone who knows proper round(x,3)). Then she forgot the four and typed .667...
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>>>>Or a guy who asked me how many cigarettes do I get out of one bag. "Didn't count, but one cigarette should be 1 gram, it says 200 grams on the bag, so that should be 200 cigarettes". "Wow! How did you calculate it so fast? I never got the hang of those metric units." (at least he was a customer)