Wednesday, March 26, 2014

passwords, embarrassment, & more embarrassment, oh my!

Another reason the Queen should be my date for fangirling shenanigans at the Chicago Author Event…Funny story…

Are you listening, EL?

So the other day, my IT guy was in my office. I affectionately refer to him as ‘Fucko.’ My computer was all wonky and he was trying to fix it. But where I work—it’s like Fort Knox. There are passwords for everything and I mean EVERYTHING. 

Well, I was snuggled up in the comfy chair while he was doing his thing. I was so comfy that it got to the point where I was too lazy to get up and type in my passwords so I was just verbally giving him my passwords to put in. No big deal, right? And then it happened…


We got to a password that I did not think he would be asking for. What the hell?!?!? Why did he have to be so thorough!?!? Instant panic. I couldn’t get up and run over and type it in myself! He would think it was way worse than it actually was. I had to think quick! I had a brilliant idea: If I spell it for him, he might not know what it is. I mean, it’s kind of long—he might not even register it in his brain. Genius, right!?!?

Me: Capital C-H-R-I-S-T-I-A-N-Capital G-R-E-Y-5-0

Silence….no key strokes...Fucko stopped what he was doing. Turned. Looked at me with disgust and said, “Really?”

Me:



Oh…also…apparently IT guys aren’t bound by any type of NDAs because everyone under the sun here seems to now know my password. Awesome.

So there it is…yet another reason why EL should fangirl with me…because as “grown up” and “professional” as I am, clearly you can take the fangirl out of the fandom (by making her go to work in real life!) but you can’t take the fandom out of the fangirl.

xoxo

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