You've Got Inked!

For anyone who has been keeping up with the daily news, be it print or screen, you would agree that the airline industry has had its fair share of fame in the past few weeks. Customers slapping employees, employees beating up customers, VIPs throwing their weight around by tossing people off the plane onto the tarmac etc etc etc. I strongly advocate a sense of humour to deal with life and its nuances. The jokes that followed on social media are the things that make life worth living!!
In all this fun and frolicking, the one incident that caught my attention the most was that of the lady who found out about her husband's extramarital affair, mid-air some 35,000 thousand feet above the ground. Well, what followed, I'm sure, was probably a 'cloud 9 ' experience for the husband.  What was hilarious and scary at the same time was the way she found out. All she had to do was to place her husband's finger on his phone screen while he was snoozing, to unlock it and there it was... a can of worms !! Yikes!! As I was reading about this all I could think of was,' You go girl!!' and what an idiot the husband was. Seriously!! He totally qualifies for the MenXP commercial screening on T. V nowadays. If you have not seen it, it is a must-watch!
So, The new fingerprint lock technology no longer looks cool, now does it? I am sure many warning bells are ringing and red flags are going up in many heads. Finger printing seems to have come full circle. During the British Raj being called an ' angutha chap' (thumbprint) meant you were illiterate and your only identity was your inked thumb impression. As years went by it emerged as the only safe bet against forgery and other hand written frauds. Now fingerprinting is mandatory for every citizen's government records across all sections of society. Soon it became a cool technology and is used in corporations with a fancy term called 'Biometrics' to log your attendence at work. Our humble thumbprint has come a long way and yes it does sound cool when you 'beep in' on the shiny biometric screen, yet sometimes it does more than identify someone- it shows his or her true character.