Gretchen invented a new game this weekend: "Gay or Just European?" In part because we are always on the lookout for when certain gay-friends-who-shall-remain-nameless hopefully come to visit, we have often found ourselves wondering about certain men we encounter (waiters, salesmen, etc.). It seems that many of the men here have a certain style, a certain manner, a certain way of dressing and grooming--a certain je ne sais quoi, if you will--that in many parts of the U.S. might just be considered gay. To be bluntly stereotypical, this is especially true in French-speaking countries, although it was also the case in London, and is much less prevalent in Switzerland. Anyway, many are the times we've found ourselves having conversations like: "What do you think?" "Probably, but I dunno...maybe he's just European." (I can say this now that I sometimes wear funny European shoes and carry a coin pouch and have my hair styled by a Frenchman named Guy. Not that there's anything wrong with that.) Gretchen came up with shorthand for these conversations and now just says things like "SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?" (oh, wait--that's Joshua the computer from the cheesy-yet-classic 1980s Matthew Broderick/Ally Sheedy/Dabney Coleman film "WarGames", but you get the picture).