Tuesday, November 9, 2010

I can haz swissbürger(recht)

As of this week I have a new ancestral home town, Romoos, Luzern.

I have been looking forward to becoming Swiss for a couple of reasons. One, so I can vote. And two, so I can get arrested without getting deported. My first act as a Swiss citizen will be to build a minaret.

In addition, I am quite proud to have become a Romooser. Romoos is a tiny cow town (in, I believe, the Apline foothills), but a heroic town clerk from there once saved us from a great deal of unpleasantness, by sending a critical fax to the airline we scheduled were to fly on.

The fax said, in essence, that passport or no passport, my wife always had a place in her ancestral village, and they should let her on the goddamned plane. You can see why I like Romoos.