Fat Americans causing problems again...
Anybody who's met me knows I have a metabolic rate of which supermodels would be envious. While that is convenient in many ways, it does cause me undue hardship when buying pants. I have a 28 inch waist so it's generally been tricky to find pants that will fit me. Living in the US, however, has made this even harder. A pair of pants I purchased at American Eagle is labelled as having a 28 inch waist but is actually 31 inches! Apparently, in an effort to make increasingly obese Americans feel better about their expanding waistlines, they've been inflating the size of inches! I guess they figured nobody else would notice because the rest of the world probably uses metric anyway.