When my oldest son — who works in security in Washington, D.C.— comes to visit, he is always completely aghast at my total lack of securing anything.
He runs around the premises every night, locking doors, planning the escape route in case of a fire, terrorist attack or a locust invasion, stocking up on bottled water and 20-pound cans of beans while wearing cammo and SWAT gear to take out my garbage.
This disrupts my normal security routine of waking up in the recliner at 2 a.m. — after I fall asleep watching season 12 of “Hoarders” — and stumbling to the front and back doors to lock up for the night.
What drives my son the craziest, though, is a document on my computer desktop appropriately titled “PASSWORDS.”
Actually, there are now two documents — one called “NEW PASSWORDS” and another called “OLD PASSWORDS.”
“Mom,” he admonished, “Tell me you do not put the passwords to every account you have out there for the whole world to see?!”
“Don’t be silly,” I said. “The whole world doesn’t use my computer, just you, Stacy, Ben, Chris, the grandkids, my friend, LeeAnn — ’cause her ex took the computer when he left her for his best friend’s much younger sister, you know, the blond masseuse who worked at Tender Touches — or my neighbors when their wireless goes out or they forget to pay the bill.”
I often forget my password and am forced to come up with a new password. For that reason, I prefer easy-to-remember passwords like “password123,” “vivspassword” or “mypassword.”
But because of security measures, I can spend an entire afternoon on the computer, just trying to come up with an acceptable password.
My son, on the other hand, will change his passwords every five or six days. One week he changed one from “catinhatprobe?/{678}=&!^%@$$wipeDRAG79men2Jail” to “hatincatprobe?/{678}=&!^%@$$wipeDRAG79men2Jail”.
Who’s got that kind of time? I’m not a young woman.
This is how I create a password:
WEBSITE: Please enter your new password.
ME: password
WEBSITE: Sorry, password must have more than 8 characters.
ME: passwords
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password must contain at least one numerical character.
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password cannot begin with a numerical character.
ME: password1
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password must contain at least one symbol.
ME: password1!
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character.
Viv: password1DAMMit!
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.
VIV: WTF!DAMN password1-iH8u!
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password cannot contain blank spaces.
VIV: NOW:Driving2YourCity2leaveU4dead!
WEBSITE: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation or hyphens.
ME: IH8U!*&%#off-DIEsucker!!
WEBSITE: Sorry, You’ve already used that password in the past.
ME: @#$%!&1*@#$%@&&!DIE!DIE!DIE!
WEBSITE: That password is already taken. Please choose another.
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Vintage Chicks LOL 
