answer:Do blind people get that answer a lot? Maybe people do it because feet is a visual reference and steps isn’t. Maybe some people actually think in feet and just do a rough “feet to steps conversion” in there heads. I am not one of those people though. As a sighted person, if someone told me that I needed to walk a hundred more feet to get to where I wanted to go I, lol, would probably do a kind of reverse conversion in my head and translate the feet into step because I have no clue how far away 100 feet would be. If a blind person asked me where something was, if it in the city or the suburbs I would use blocks to direct them. Half a block, one block, two blocks, whatever, then turn right and go another two two block and its about whatever distance it might be. Inside a house I’m not sure. I would look around and try to find some spacial reference. Laundry room: down the hall first door on the right, etc. Sorry, long winded non-answer but no one else has even tried to answer your question. And if I was doing my laundry drunk, carrying a load of laundry, I would probably be crawling or stumbling or flat on my ass and that changes the equation entirely; make it difficult to convert into steps. :-)