The Mom we know and love...

[susandennis]

Mom's email: "I got your note but I've been too busy to read it. Of course, this busy includes nap and hairdo and tennis on TV."

She gets so mad when people act like she has nothing to do. Sometimes people will just drop by or expect her to be someplace at a certain time without asking or clearing it with her and that really pisses her off. "People think we have nothing to do." I so want to say "But, Mom, you DO have nothing to do!" I don't dare.

I wish I knew someone who wants to rob a bank and doesn't have enough nerve to do it in person. I have the bank for them. Mom's bank is a local Charleston bank and they are so cute. They try hard. They now have online banking. It's the ugliest oldest looking interface in the world. The userid is her social security number. It takes next to nothing to lock yourself out. But, a quick phone call fixes is right up.

Online banking, this is Marcia. How can I help you?

I've locked myself out of my account again.

Oh dear. What's your userid?

I give her Mom's social security number and she clicks a couple of things and says "Can you try now while I'm on the phone or are you on dial up?"

I get right in and thank her.

Please note that nowhere does she ask for confirmation of who I am. She doesn't ask for my name, my mother's maiden name, my mailing address, a DNA sample, nothing... And this is not a fluke. It has happened every single time.

I'm pretty sure that you could call and/or send them email and rob them that way. Tell them on the phone or in the email that you have a gun. Have your own account number ready so you can tell them where to put the money and I'll betcha they would do it. They are so nice and not at all affected by any of those nasty security practices that big banks use. They have to be the last little old fashioned main street (only in their case it's Broad Street) bank left in the world.

Her other problem today was talking smileys. She loves, loves, loves the smileys from www.smileycentral.com. Half the time when I call her in the morning she says, "I've finished a note to you but I haven't sent it because I'm still looking for the best smilie." She uses smileys at the end of her notes like I use pictures at the end of my LJ entries. It's genetic. But, when she does it, it's just cute.

Today she tells me that now they have Talking Smileys - lordsaveusall. Anyway, she needs me because when she clicked on Talking Smileys, it wanted to know how much memory she had. "And 'not enough' wasn't one of the options."

I checked it out and learned that, fortunately, talking smileys are 1) still in beta and 2) for IM only. So I told her she would have to wait that they were only digital for now. In Mom's world, if it's digital she thinks it's too confusing for her to understand. So if I don't want to explain something to her I just tell her it's digital. Periodically, I say 'now, that's digital, do you want me to explain it?" "Oh no, if it's digital, I'm ok not knowing."

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[treebreeze.livejournal.com]

what a cute post. Cute, cute, cute....