OMG, Joan, you had me laughing out loud!! Fantastic! I, too, had to undergo fingerprinting at work, although mine wasn't quite as arduous as yours. However, my fingers are curled into a sort-of fist, so they had to straighten each finger, one at a time, apply ink, then roll the finger flat against a paper. Yes, it went just as you imagine--or even worse.
Like you, Joan, I have a very faint fingerprint to begin with. Add to that some spasticity, a hand-to-paper maneuver that would impress Cirque du Soleil, and an impatient (though amused) quad (me) and there can be no surprise that the fingerprint agency rejected the submitted prints. Three different times. We finally gave up. :) I believe it was Voltaire who said:"Common sense is not so common." Don. ________________________________ From: Joan Anglin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:38 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] Bureaucracy OK, a new thing for me (at least in the last 23 years), I had to get fingerprinted because of our Host Home license with the state. Now my thoughts are: I've been licensed 36 years with the state, had been fingerprinted and background checked numerous times before breaking my neck in 1990. Always passed. Haven't been able to move my arms, use my hands etc etc etc since that time. Now they want a new background check and fingerprints. Let me see, I'm afraid that they found out about my attempt to rob a store few years ago-told the clerk that this was a stickup, I had a gun, it is in my lap, told him to pick it up, point it at himself and hand over the money. Oh right, those were his fingerprints not mine. I guess I am in the clear. We get to the fingerprinting place, fill out paperwork, and then spend several minutes trying to figure out how to do my fingerprints on a machine that's attached the wall. We finally figure it all out, and she begins the slow process of doing my right hand first, then the left hand, then back to the right hand, and then back to the left hand as that is how the machine is set up. Each time I have to backup the wheelchair, turn around, backup to the machine, a total of four times. Whew, got that accomplished and she looks at me and says " are you enjoying your little outing today? You certainly can drive your chair well" I said no to the first question and told her that she walks pretty well too. She sort of laughs and has the last laugh on me. She states " I hope the state will accept these fingerprints as it looks like you have burned them off and they usually require additional fingerprinting". I guess only my thumbs have any ridges and whorls after being on my hand rests for 23 years. But now I am legal. Joan just shaking my head.
