I got a GPS System!

[judy]

Originally Posted by DianaB

I always thought that a mile was 10-12 blocks. Twenty-two blocks would be pretty skinny blocks. You might want to double check that.

I looked it up and in most city it is 12 blocks, although someone somewhere measured it at 16 blocks. However, it differs from city to city.

In Manhattan, it is 20 blocks/mile.

Now where do we take that factoid?

Discuss it at the mall next time you're buying dog stuff - just mention it to the cashier. We can, of course, tell them when the aliens abduct us.