Lost In The Tech Age

I forgot my password

Can’t seem to remember it

I did not forget the whole thing

Oh no I did

What was my username?

What? I forgot that too

Damn

Now I can’t work on my website

Got to call the tech guy

Now he asked what is my customer id

I said excuse me what’s that

I spend time entering possible combinations

I know one of them has to work, has to

I try different letters and numbers

My frustration grows as I keep getting that same wrong password window

The browser mocks me YOU FORGOT YOUR PASSWORD

So many numbers and passwords form debit card, locker, bank number, depart of Ed employee number social security, checking account myspace, gmail, hotmail, facebook, twitter 

It’s all too much to keep in my head

My computer remembers all my log in information

But from time to time some how the info gets lost on my hard drive

What is my secret question?

What’s the answer to my secret question?

Which email account did I use to register for this site

I want to see my home page

Should have wrote down the stuff on a sticky note

Or put it in a word file

I smack myself in the forehead

I curse myself

I forgot my password to my email

How can I check my email to get the new temporary password?

My nightmare continues

Did I use upper or lower case letters?

Did I use symbols and numbers?

I start to pull out my hair

Wrong password

Wrong username

Wrong password

Wrong username

It’s highlighted in red

I watch the page reload and hope this time it will work

my faulty memory

I think maybe I should just say fuck it and start a new account

But what about all my emails all my friends and followers

I image tons of important emails coming in that I can’t check

People leaving incredible comments on my facebook page

Having one hundred new followers on twitter

Having hundreds of hits on my flickr photos

I take a deep breath and sigh

I watch the little dots appear on the screen in the password box

I cross my fingers and toes

I try and try like some hacker trying to break a code

I want to explode

Finally I remember the email account I used

I check the email

Get my username and new temporary password

Go back to the website

Type everything in again

It’s a miracle I can see all my shit

I create a new password but again I don’t write it down

Set to repeat the same thing over again