Fuckthismotherfuckingshit#!*1

Password foibles — a true story

Nancy Oglesby
Another Fucking Publication
4 min readJun 27, 2024

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You know. I know you do. There’s no way, in 2024, that you haven’t had a pissing match with your computer requesting a password.

You know it’s right… it’s there in the book! In pen! Printed precisely in your grammar-school-trained, yes-Mrs.-Tunnicliff-the-small-u-goes-to-the-height-of-the-bottom-half-of-the-h, penmanship.

SunnyDaysRH3re!63

But, the Facebook is telling you you’re wrong, so you reenter it, assuming you hit the wrong key since the Facebook won’t show you what you entered originally.

SunnyDaysRH3re!63

𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝.

No, it’s not! I pull out my phone, go to passwords, and lo and behold, there it is, big as life… SunnyDaysRH3re!63

I reenter it.

𝚈𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚙𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚘𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝.

At this point, I give up and click on Forgot Password? while screeching that no, I did not forget my password… You did!

Why do I have to enter my email address again? Good god, people!

𝚓𝚘𝚜𝚌𝚑𝚖𝚘𝚎@𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚜𝚘𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚖𝚊𝚒𝚕.𝚌𝚘𝚖

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Nancy Oglesby
Another Fucking Publication

I explore life and tell stories! Embracing the world of Drabbles. Publisher of Fiction Shorts, the Challenged, and Another Fucking Publication