Password

Do you remember the 1960's game show called "Password" with host Allen Lunden?  It was a game show where celebrity guests would give a word clue to a contestant and the contestant had to guess the word.

That game  is what came to mind yesterday when I am trying to remember my password and secret reminders for one of accounts.

It seems that  with all the computerization, ATM's, chip cards, now days a  password or code is required.   Now I don't know about you but I can only remember so many of these passwords and codes, especially if they aren't ones that I use very often.  I appreciate the security aspect of all these codes but boy is it making it difficult to remember them all.

At my work  I have a password to log into the computer, every three months we have to change our password....pain in the butt.   It's not a simple password either, the password must contain a capital letter, small case letter and number and it is case sensitive.  Ok so I do this....now on our internal job positing which of course are all on the computer you have to have a different password and a different log in name...geesh.

So yesterday, as I was saying I was trying to log into this account online, an account that I generally get sent to me in the mail, but my hubby who is a computer whiz thought I should have all my accounts online so I could have immediate access.  Well of course that sounds all well and good until such time you have to remember the Password!  Needless to say I ended up locking myself out of the system because of my "3" failed attempts so off to customer support I had to go.  I spoke with two agents who of course were very helpful but still all the numbers they had me enter and screens I had to look at was all a bit mind boggling, but I did it.  The funny thing was at the end of my tutorial with the agent, he said to me if I had an iPhone or the likes I could access my accounts via my cell phone... are you kidding! I just laughed