From A to Z

Wait, what? Sprechen sie what??

So, I have decided that the next 2 or so years will be dedicated to Switzerland; its curiosities, oddities, idiocies, so I may as well highlight the same for the good ole US of A before I leave. Part of a country's differences include their people, so I found the following quite curious.

Two different people that I have had actual conversations with, multiple times, have asked me if I am from Switzerland. Am I terrible for thinking these two people are idiots? Now if I had a habit of speaking as if I were hocking a loogey, I could understand the confusion...alas, I don't have a hint of a German accent. Maybe people just think everyone sounds American everywhere...maybe they don't understand why I would leave this great country. Whatever the case, I stick with my first hypothesis...idiots.

I almost did a post about the folks who wished us well in Sweden, but I can sorta understand the confusion there.