Changes

Lots of people hate change. I rather like it. Something new is exciting and opens doors hitherto shut. But just try to convince some sites on line of that! I have certain accounts on line that from time to time, refuse to accept my password and as a result, I try to change it. Filling out all the information goes on and on and when you have worked your way through your birthdate, gender and favorite ice cream flavour, you are told you have been successful at changing your password but all you have to do is go to your other app and find the url that confirms it. You plod through that step and voila there is the address that you may click on and Bob's Your Uncle - actually didn't have an uncle named Bob, but Earl doesn't have the same ring. Okay. All set. Now you can access your mail. You go to your mail site and click. It asks you your e mail address and password, of course. You enter it with confidence, for, after all, you have spent a good half hour making sure you got it all right. But no go. You get a message saying that "there is something wrong". You think you must have entered it incorrectly - as they suggest. You enter it again. Still, it tells you "there is something wrong". After a number of attempts including the desperate ones putting in old passwords since perhaps they will work, all else failing, but alas they, also, will not do. The "something wrong" isn't you. It's them. You know you're right because you entered the new and supposedly fixed password into your little tan password book, the one that doesn't lie because it is in real ballpoint pen and not stored on line. As a last gesture, you click on x and say something blue as you give up and go have a coffee. If they want me, they can call me you say. But later on, you realize that you really cannot live without your devices and the options of all they bring into your life. Your friends won't be able to tell you what they've been doing that afternoon. Your favorite shopping sites can't spread their tempting arrays before you. That news item you heard via radio needs to be seen on your screen. And what about the cute looking specimen that you met yesterday and gave your e mail address to. That could be a whole new experience! And then how can your hair and nail ladies remind you of your appointments, not to mention your dentist. Ahhh. It's back to the screen and more blanks to fill out. It can't be that hard, you tell yourself.