I was standing at a bus stop yesterday when a young guy asked a woman how far it was to Partick, she said ''are you walking or driving'' he said ''walking'' '' oh in that case it's about 15 minutes.'' he thanked her and started  on his merry way to Partick.

 I thought to myself is this a Glasgow or a Scottish thing then I remembered last year in Australia every time I asked the distance to somewhere I given the answer in time.
It is strange but you can sort of understand it.
 
Now this could be a good thing because time is neither metric or imperial.

But it does get a bit silly, you can't go into Allied and ask  for two minutes of carpet or go into an electrical shop and get a two second fluoresent tube or when asked your height reply  1.68 seconnds.

It reminds me of an old Chic Murray joke ''how long's the next bus'' ''about the same length as the last one''