Have you ever watched a TV show where someone has to figure out someone else’s password in order to access their phone or computer? Miraculously, after only three tries, they come up with the magic word. I can’t even come up with my own passwords, let alone someone else’s.

Remember that old game show Password? Well, if you’re younger than I am, you don’t, so I’ll tell you the idea. Contestants had to get their partners to say a word by giving them one-word clues. I did pretty well as a couch contestant. But ask me to recall the 17-character monstrosity I had to create to access my electric bill? Not happening. (Like someone’s going to go online and secretly pay my bill.)

Having to have a password for everything drives me crazy. I can’t remember what I had for breakfast most days, let alone passwords. I try to keep my life simple by using the same password for everything. Yes, I know, the experts tell us not to do that. But the experts don’t tell me how I’m supposed to remember 3000 different passwords. Praise God for the sites that automatically “remember” me. Otherwise, I’d constantly be clicking the little button that says, “Forgot your password?” And just when I’ve finally committed my password to memory, some government agency (of course, it’s always a government agency) requires me to change my password again. When I worked at the veterinary clinic on base, I had to change my password every three months. The Copyright office requires constant changing of passwords, also. Who do they think is going to access my Copyright site and upload a book under my name?

The problem is when having to come up with a password, relatively few sites tell you what they want. It’s only AFTER I’ve entered my easy-to-remember password that a red notice pops up saying, “Your password must include a symbol, a number, a punctuation, an upper-case letter, a lower-case letter, and a letter from your doctor. Geesh! Couldn’t they have told me that upfront? A number of sites won’t accept my simple password, requiring something so complex nobody, including me, will ever be able to log in to.

What’s even worse is that Hubby frequently tries to “help” me by signing me up for various sites that only I will use by putting in passwords only he would know—like “$AH-64*Apache#1982. For some reason, the passwords he uses are all aircraft he flew “back in the day.” I still can’t sign into my PayPal account because I can’t remember the numbers on that blasted helicopter he flew during the Carter administration.

Please don’t try to be helpful by telling me there’s an APP for keeping passwords. First, I wouldn’t know how to install it, and second, if Hubby helps me, I’ll never be able to guess the password he uses to set up the APP, so it will be useless to me.

Poll: How many times have you reset a password this month?

Just once
2-5 times
6-10 times
I’m literally resetting one right now

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