Fingerprints

We had to go get fingerprinted yesterday as part of our home study and state background check. Daniel went first and was out within 5 or so minutes. I have been fingerprinted once before to be a substitute teacher, but it was paper and ink back then (does that make me sound old?!). Now they use a touchpad and digital images. I think I preferred the ink and paper. I either have abnormally long middle fingers or ridiculously short pinky fingers, but we couldn't get all my fingers to show up on the touchpad. I asked if I could bend my fingers to bring my pinky up and the lady doing the fingerprints freaked and said, "No! Your fingers have to be flat!!!" Well, alright. So we tried repeatedly to get my stinking pinky fingerprints. She would press my fingers down and tell me to stop wiggling them (again, I had no idea I was wiggling my fingers!). And then the lady told me my fingertips were too sweaty. Hm...I'm not sure I have much control over that. After about 20 minutes, we finally had all the fingerprints that were digitally acceptable except for 1. She said that she could have 2 that were not "passed," so we could send them. This definitely makes me look forward to the next fingerprinting session we have to do for the federal government. I hope their system is better! :)

With anticipation,
The Knueppels