“Welcome back,” is what the young customs official with the gel-styled front spoiler hairdo finally did say.\u00c2\u00a0 But before that, he took my 1998 US passport and asked a few probing questions.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Critically: “What were you – what are you doing in Switzerland?”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I live there.\u00c2\u00a0 I work there.”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Suspiciously, waving my passport: “How did you get this one?”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
“My mother is American.”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking at the passport: “What happened to the hair?”\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
I think I took that one with good humor, but mostly a great deal of bewilderment.\u00c2\u00a0 What does he ask the women fresh off a long-haul flight?\u00c2\u00a0 Does he quiz them on their wrinkles?\u00c2\u00a0 Is my thinning hair really a US security issue?\u00c2\u00a0 Shouldn’t he have questioned me about the food I said I was carrying instead?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Welcome back indeed.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
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“Welcome back,” is what the young customs official with the gel-styled front spoiler hairdo finally did say.\u00c2\u00a0 But before that, he took my 1998 US passport and asked a few probing questions.\u00c2\u00a0 Critically: “What were you – what are you doing in Switzerland?”\u00c2\u00a0 “I live there.\u00c2\u00a0 I work there.”\u00c2\u00a0 Suspiciously, waving my passport: “How did you get this one?”\u00c2\u00a0 “My mother is American.”\u00c2\u00a0 Looking at the passport: “What happened to the hair?”\u00c2\u00a0 I think I took that one with good humor, but mostly a great deal of bewilderment.\u00c2\u00a0 What does he ask the women fresh off a long-haul flight?\u00c2\u00a0 Does he quiz them on their wrinkles?\u00c2\u00a0 Is my thinning hair […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}