A Swiss hygiene inspector calls

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/4318029.stm

Moving house is said to be one of life's most stressful experiences but, in Switzerland, it is made even more stressful by strict requirements on how you leave your old home. Imogen Foulkes moved house recently and describes the day the hygiene inspector came to call.

I have to confess, I have always been a bit intimidated by the Swiss devotion to cleanliness. snip

But, a few years on, I have become more used to Swiss hygiene standards so, when it came to moving house, I knew I was expected to leave my old home immaculate.

Sure enough, I got a letter saying the hygiene inspector would be there at 10 o'clock on a Monday morning.

He arrived, punctual to the nanosecond - a dapper little man in a maroon jacket and beautifully pressed trousers.

His name was Herr Schweizer - or Mr Swiss in English - and he had even brought a spare pair of shoes to wear inside the house.

I should have recognised the warning signs when I noticed that Herr Schweizer, who was no taller than me, somehow managed to look down at me over the top of his glasses.

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1. roflol

as a swiss born and bred...just roflol ... i moved trice and never had an hygiene inspector... perhaps they just bug furriners with that....