Sometimes when you go to a yarn store you encounter the Know-it-all Knitting Lady. These are the ladies who feel the need to help you out so strongly and to tell you exactly how knitting should be done even when they don't really know what they are talking about.
Went to a store recently where someone in my party asked if they had metric gauges for knitting needles. The Know-it-all Knitting Lady proceeded to tell us, forcefully, that Metric was exactly the same as US and all gauges had both on them and that Addi was the only needle that was different. Well, my compatriot and I looked at each other knowingly and quickly left the store because we both knew that the Know-it-all Lady didn't know quite as much as she thought.
In my possession right now I have a nice package of sock needles with 6 sets of needles that are labeled with both their US and Metric sizes. In US sizes the set contains exactly one set of size 0 needles, 2 sets of size 1, 2 sets of size 2, and one set of size 3. In Metric the same set contains one set each of 2.00mm, 2.25mm, 2.50mm, 2.75mm, 3.00mm, and 3.25mm. Hmmm...it seems as though they're not quite exactly the same.
The lesson to be learned from this incident is that Know-it-all Knitting Ladies don't always know it all. Trust your guts.
