We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has
exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>The 2-Belo wrote:
>> We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that CL has
>> exploded. Flight director confirms that:
>> 
>>>> Another way to do it is to sic your wife on 'em.
>>> Too dangerous.  First off, my wife is not Japanese ... she's Edokko.
>> 
>> OH SHI- *Mito Komon music*
>> 
>> Hhhhhhhaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaa. *dogeza*
>
>I think the line in her koseki tohon with my name on it say "Consort" 
>but no one will confirm it for me.
>
>Her grandmother made me the kamon-mochi when she died, much to the 
>disgust of the Human Beings not her mom (mom's sisters and their 
>husbands) ... and with the stiff resistance of the Human Beings at the 
>kuyakusho.  But, I was the only one who knows Japanese history and 
>Grandma loved her storytelling about wars and battles the family had 
>fought in.

Oh, now that must have been a treat to listen to. Neither side of my family
(Japanese or otherwise) have any stories left to tell, if there were any -- all
the grandfathers are gone now. The only thing I know for sure was that my wife's
granddad fought in China, he never wanted to talk about that to anyone. And I
never met him, because he was the only one in the family who had an aversion to
aliens. (Luckily, everyone *else* is totally cool with me.)

>So, I am the official guardian of the family kamon.  Be nicer if that 
>came with a stipend, the use of a lovely maid every night, a car and 
>driver, or a free house, though ...

You need to authoritatively thrust your kamon in front of people and see what
happens.

(I didn't mean that the way it sounded.)


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