Over at Teekay’s

I think the same would apply to Germans as well, but the Swiss are a bit stranger, a bit more idiosyncratic, a bit less self-conscious — just plain weird, in fact — in everything they do.

At the Italian-Swiss border, before 5 am on Easter Monday. Swiss border guard enters bus to collect all passports and run them through a check. Unsmiling, not saying a word, not so much unfriendly as totally focused on his work.

Guy wears two earrings.

Two!!

Comment from my wife: they’re extremely correct, extremely focused on doing the right thing, conscientious about the job — but hey, they’re also real rebels.

Struck me as *exactly* right.