I used to have a great memory for phone numbers back in the day when we all had to remember numbers the old fashioned way. In fact some numbers still stick. I can flawlessly remember the phone number to my high school job even today. Maybe that means I called in too often?? Hmmm. But ask me what my own cell phone number is and I'm not kidding... I've had the same number for 15 years and I may or may not remember it quickly off the top of my head.
I think it's quite possible that our previously great phone number memory is now devoted to other things like PASSWORDS. Yuck! Nod your head if you have more than 20 passwords. See? I knew I wasn't the only one. I have passwords for my home PC, passwords for my work PC's, then 6 or 7 separate passwords to log onto systems within my work PC, passwords for banking by ATM, banking by phone, banking online, passwords for phones, passwords for voicemail, passwords for shopping and and of course accessing just about any system we encounter in daily life. I swear sometimes I think my passwords even have passwords!
I have this horrible haunting fear that one day I will be in a busy line at the store and draw a complete blank when I go to enter my debit card password number. There I'll be... standing like an idiot drooling on the keyboard with a blank look... everyone behind me is slowly forming into an angry mob.... just how big a dipwad is this woman? Come on... Come on... Then punch random numbers with a little prayer and hit that enter button like you're pulling the handle on a slot machine... come on baby, puuuleeezz let this work!
Those techie password expert people tell you three main rules for passwords...
1. Choose some odd random pattern of both small and capitol letters and numbers. You ever get one of those computer-generated passwords?? Yeah, like I can remember THAT?
2. Don't use the same password for multiple accounts. Again, yeah right! I try to use the same basic set of passwords so therefore I only have to remember some variation of about three or four passwords instead of 300 different ones. Even then, its doubtful I will get it right on the first try.
3. (And I really love this one...) Never write your passwords down. HA! Most people I know have a cheat sheet just like I do for passwords for all their various accounts. You seriously want to screw with my brain? Steal my password cheat sheet. My world would cease to turn. Aaaahh!
Because you know that's one of those "other duties as assigned" Momma job duties, right? You not only have to remember your own passwords, you have to be the holy keeper of the passwords of the home. That means your husband can ask you for the password he used on Amazon.com three years ago and you WILL know it. Your daughter will call at least three times per semester asking what her password is to various college website components and even if you've never even seen that website, you of course WILL know it. It's just part of those Momma duties. You know, the Momma duties like being the last one to bed and the first one awake no matter your exhaustion level, like knowing instinctively when each child is wearing their last pair of clean jeans, like doing that world record sprint carrying your child to the bathroom between the first retch and your child spewing like a shaken soda, or being able to produce a Nobel level science project with humblest of supplies mere hours before its due.
We Mommas gotta keep up with the times! What time is it? Let me see if I can remember the password to unlock my phone and I'll tell you... hold on.... I'm drawing a blank here! LOL
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