I’ve lost my fingerprints (English follows)

到香港兩夜三日，回桃園機場，信心十足拿居留證入關。放證件、站好、拍照，門開了，向前一步，捺指紋。。。奇怪，沒有反應，再捺一次，再一次，門就是不開。移民警察看到了，叫我搓搓鼻子兩邊，加點油，還是沒用，就叫我換個管道，結果一樣，讀不到指紋。我跟他說，我真的有指紋啊！

他叫我到櫃檯。櫃檯的移民警察拿出精密的讀指紋機，還是讀不出。拿出油，叫我擦，搓熱、擦乾、換了拇指、換了中指、換了一台機器，都沒用。我回不了家嗎？她叫我就走人工驗證管道，三兩下子就過關了。

可是仔細看，真的看不到爸爸媽媽給我的指紋！難怪最近筆電用指紋打不開。我猜，可能是因為前陣子買甚麽東西，店家送了兩塊肥皂，不太好，所以我都用來洗手。沒想到連指紋洗掉了！

We took a quick, two night trip to Hong Kong. Coming back, I confidently approached the document readers in Immigration, placed my Permanent Residence Card on the reader, looked at the camera, the turnstile opened, and I approached the fingerprint readers. I placed my index fingers on the readers… zilch. Nothing happened. I tried again, and again, but nothing happened. An Immigration Policeman saw this, and told me to rub my fingers alongside my nose to get some oil, but still nothing happened. He told me to try another aisle, but still, the readers didn’t respond to my fingerprints. I told him, I really do have fingerprints! 

He sent me to the counter, where they have more delicate readers. Still no response. The Immigration Police lady there got out some ointment, I oiled up my fingers, nothing. I dried my fingers, nothing. I rubbed my fingers to warm them, nothing. Thumbs. Nothing. Middle fingers. Nothing. Can I ever get home? She sent me to have my documents checked manually, and bing bang boom, I was through. 

Looking carefully, I can barely find the fingerprints my parents supplied! No wonder I’ve been having trouble turning on my laptop. The problem may stem from soap. A while back, when we bought something, we were given two cakes of soap, but they’re not very good, so I’ve been using them to wash my hands. They have washed away my fingerprints! This may be the time to take up safecracking.