12/6/2007

So silly

Filed under: — Aprille @ 3:29 pm

I was doing some online shopping at a site I haven’t used before, but I figured I might again in the future, so I went ahead and set up an account.

Part of that process involved setting up a security question/answer in case I forget my password or something.  I chose the first of the pre-selected questions:  “What’s the name of the city in which you were born?”

I put in my answer, submitted my account info, and found it summarily rejected.  Apparently only answers of 6-12 letters are allowed.  Um…I don’t see Ames getting any longer any time soon.  Okay, fine.  I moved onto the next security question:  “What is your mother’s middle name?”  Normally this kind of process asks for one’s mother’s maiden name, which would have fit the criteria, but again, Ann didn’t make the cut.  Nor did the next question:  “What is your father’s middle name?”  Dean = NOT ALLOWED.

All the other questions were these ambiguous things, like “What’s the last name of your favorite author?”  How on earth am I supposed to decide?  I like all kinds of authors.  If pressed, I’d probably say Hemingway, but I like a lot of other authors too.  Most of them probably meet the 6-12 letter criterion, but I’d be likely to get it wrong because I’d be in more of a Garcia Marquez mood that day.  And, never mind, Garcia Marquez is 13 letters, so he’s out too.

Another option was “What’s your pet’s name?”  I don’t have any pets.

I finally found one that sort of worked, but let me tell you, I’m a lot more likely to forget the answer to that question than I am my password.

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