opening scene: 10:41 pm a messy kitchen, someone practical is attempting to clean it, someone infuriating is trying to torture their spouse with inane questions…
android husband: (all business like) I’m trying to organize our finances so I need your bank password, what is it?
me: (attempting to change the subject) and how was your day…
android husband: (onto me) don’t try to weasel out of this I really need your password
me: (dude I only have room in my brain for two passwords- Facebook and Twitter, obviously) bank password you say? I don’t recall such a thing
android husband: (agitated) do you recall that we opened an account?
me: yup
android husband: and I asked you to set up a password?
me: yup
android husband: can you try to remember what it might be?
me: yup…thinking about passwords, thinking about how the word password reminds me of the word crossword because what a weird image right? passing through a word or crossing a word, crossing words are those like fighting words?
android husband: got anything yet?
me: nope
android husband: (attempting new tactic) okay, okay the security question is what was your first job?
me: why would they ask such a thing?
android husband: (exasperated) you chose that as your security question
me: that’s what they want you to think, try the Academy of Sciences
android husband: how would you have written that?
me: I dunno, a-c-a-d-e-m-y space o-f space s-c-i-e-n-c-e-s?
android husband: lower case? upper case?
me: you know now that I think about it, it could have been the Sofitel Hotel,I think I remember typing that in because it sounded happier…Sofitel hotel, tee lee lee tra la…but you know maybe I thought they meant like what you wanted to be when you grow up, which I think I would have put actress if I was being honest but lawyer if I was trying to please my parents…
android husband: (inaudible groan)
::end scene::
I think I should probably stick to being in plays instead of attempting to write them…and so with that in mind and the encouragement of my dear (android) husband I am auditioning for a play, for community theater. Wish me luck.
PS does anyone happen to know what my bank password might be?
Hee hee!! Good luck with the audition, so exciting!
Your Droid husband sounds a lot like mine…….
Ha! I think you will do much better at your play audition than you will at remembering your bank password.
P.S. Thanks for having us over last weekend. The kids had a great time and it was nice to hang out with you.
Good luck with your audition!!
I am terrible with passwords and security questions. I try to stick with the ones that don’t involve memory, like my mother’s maiden name. One time it was grandmother instead, which is more complicated, because I have more than one grandmother. Password retrieval fail.
This seems like a conversation I’d have with my husband, except he would be the one forgetting things and it would end up with one of us getting angry. That’s how finances conversations go in our house
Good luck with the audition! I <3 community theater.
Is it a comedy?
That is too funny! I hate passwords. And our bank requires that we change them every 6 months! Good luck with that!
I’m sure you’ll nail that audition!
I gotta say – you have some mad redirection skills!!
But if I was your husband, I’d kinda want to strangle you, so I can understand his frustration.
You don’t know your bank password…. (says the Auditor/Accountant with an “are you serious?” face).
Good luck with the audition!
I always call my husband, “my financial advisor.” I’m awful with money.
hate passwords… now I’m so curious. What play, what play?
Dana
is it “Bosco”?
or “password”?
And do tell, what play?
I was thinking the SAME THING! Love ~
Good luck with the audition (I love people who do things in life!) As for your password, although I enjoyed the recap of how you might have come to your password, I have no suggestions for you because all I could think of while reading was, “What the hell is MY bank password?”
Hee!
Also, I so could have written this. Aand so could my husband. Ahem.
XO
Oh good grief! Do you know how many times I’ve had to ask the bank about mine? Cause I’m asking. Really. I’ve lost count.
i have a check book in the kitchen, one in my desk, one in my car and maybe one in my bag … my husband may have one too … we have never balanced any …
say much
ps. break a leg …
Mad Woman stole my answer.
But at least she didn’t get at your money…
p.s. the Sofitel Hotel DOES sound happier than Academy of Sciences. Good call.
You’re made for the stage!! Good luck with your audition!
I try to stay out of the finances around here too. It’s best for everyone.
good luck with the audition! have you tried bank123?
Oh my God, I totally feel for your husband LOL – I am the one that runs the finances at home and believe me, if the post was on paper, I would have grabbed it and wrinkle it while tearing it apart. Anyhow, good luck with the audition.
This was so funny! Love the thoughts, too! I finally got a Word document and wrote down EVERY password for every website in alphabetical order. Then I saved it to a CD, then external hard drive, then C drive and My Documents folder… and sometimes forget to update them all everytime I add a new site/password – so it gets interesting trying to figure out which one is most current! But some never change (like bank info!) – I found a program one time that will search your computer and tell you what all your passwords are – it was a free download and worked like a charm!
I’m obviously just catching up, but hope to hear of you strutting across stage.
Also, this post was brilliant.
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