The Lair

Possessing fingertips which are impervious to all fingerprint scanners.

Since fingerprints and other personal information is gathered when you need to ask to travel to some countries; I submitted myself to the indignity of being treated a tad like a convicted felon. Only, try as he might – the operator simply could not get my fingerprints to take, as it were.

I cleaned my fingers with some antiseptic smelling solution, washed them thoroughly – the guy even cleaned the surface of the scanner – but to no avail.

And it was just my fingers. He almost accusingly placed his own fingers on the scanner and triumphantly showed me as they scanned cleanly the first time.

And this is hereditary, to boot – my dad apparently has the same problem. If you want to call it that, of course. Now, if we can only figure out how to do this for the iris scanners, we’ll be all set.