Comments on: Trying to slow down for summer, yikes the birth Certificate! http://www.mama-is.com/trying-to-slow-down-for-summer-yikes-the-birth-certificate/ old comic archives... Mon, 20 Jun 2011 01:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: rayner garner http://www.mama-is.com/trying-to-slow-down-for-summer-yikes-the-birth-certificate/comment-page-1/#comment-2377 rayner garner Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:43:47 +0000 http://www.mama-is.com/?p=602#comment-2377 We were in Hawaii when Sachi gave birth to Fonda at home. When we presented ourselves to the registrar's office in Honolulu, the registrar's assistant who had obviously never knew of her Grandmother's births on the sugar plantation by herself, denied us a birth Cert. For a moment I was relieved, as far as the bureaucracy was concerned she didn't exist. Then I thought what about social security, an oxymoron in my opinion. So we took her to a Japanese pediatrician who chuckled and wrote on a prescription form. "I have today examined a female child called Fonda who appears to be here!" What I didn't realise was that in Japanese society I needed to take a "gift" to soften the impact of a breach of the rules. The Japanese run Honolulu much to the rage of the Hawaiians. Rayner We were in Hawaii when Sachi gave birth to Fonda at home. When we presented ourselves to the registrar’s office in Honolulu, the registrar’s assistant who had obviously never knew of her Grandmother’s births on the sugar plantation by herself, denied us a birth Cert. For a moment I was relieved, as far as the bureaucracy was concerned she didn’t exist.

Then I thought what about social security, an oxymoron in my opinion. So we took her to a Japanese pediatrician who chuckled and wrote on a prescription form. “I have today examined a female child called Fonda who appears to be here!” What I didn’t realise was that in Japanese society I needed to take a “gift” to soften the impact of a breach of the rules. The Japanese run Honolulu much to the rage of the Hawaiians.
Rayner

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