Rain drummed a steady rhythm on the skylights, accompanied by riffs of distant thunder. Her face-plant opened one eye. Unfocused gaze drifted to the window. The rest of her body was still asleep, breathing slow and even, limbs rooted to the mattress. In a sudden volcanic eruption, the duvet heaved as she flipped onto her back. She yawned. She stretched. A scratchy groan escaped her dry throat--
I’m awake. I'm home!
From the sublime to the ridiculous….
It is apparent I am either well on the road to late stage Alzheimer’s, or there is just too much going on in my crowded brain to retain anything more. After four months away, I no longer remember the multitudinous pin numbers for the various cards in my wallet. Phone calls were no help. One had to turn up in the flesh to different bank branches and jump thru hoops to affect change. I’m getting sly in my old age—to lessen the strain on my brain, I have decided to make all the numbers identical!
So many numbers: phone numbers, house numbers, birthdates, bank balance. How many digits, in how many variations is it possible to retain and for how long? It’s bad enough I am forced to carry a wad of plastic in my wallet, but to have to go thru mental gymnastics to use them is beyond the pale.
How about you? What coping mechanisms have you devised to remember your pin numbers?
5 comments:
Bwahahahha! The kids are certainly having a fantastic laugh at G'ma Roe-- A says, she looks crazy!
I agree. In today's world we have to remember so many random numbers. Aaargh! Great picture by the way!
I know the "experts" say all your passwords and pin numbers should be unique to lower the risk of identity theft, blah blah blah. The "experts" obviously are not middle-aged! I use the same password and pin (with small variations) for everything. My new peeve is websites I use to pay bills online that put requirements on my password - "Must be 86 characters, include 17 numbers, 13 punctuation marks and be printed in pink."
I feel your pain!
I changed all my #'s to be that of Boyfriend's so now he remembers them for me. Sneaky I know, lol.
Oh man am I feelin ya! I laughed so hard when I saw your picture. You certainly capture EXACTLY how I feel and what I look like when I'm trying to remember pin numbers, passwords, codes arghhhhh. Don't fall for the trick of using 15 different codes and numbers and letters etc. to keep things safe. I had the same code for everything for years. When I was told how unsafe that was I changed everything and had to literally keep lists in places where I kept other lists of other places so I wouldn't forget the pins or the places I had written them down so as not to forget them. THAT is when I got hacked! Yep. So now I changed them all back, made it simple for myself and have stopped being paranoid. Seems you can't stop bad guys no matter what you do and it's a nicer life for me in the meantime just to know what my numbers are. When you are to the point you have to have a pin # to buy groceries - I can't talk about it anymore. I'm going to make that same face you have in your photo and then go to bed. Good night!
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