pinned

By Di_Hard

Fri, 17 Aug 2018
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Today I forgot my PIN number.

I think it's all the contactless there is now.

How easy it is to go without

needing to say hello

or reply. Or touch.

Flapping the wings of my mind

but going nowhere as, ears sharp, eyes boring

at my back I felt a queue

accumulate

till I fled before I used my last attempt

and my card got cancelled.

Went home like a butterfly searching for nectar

after the first frost

Certificate U
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Quite a lot of funny twists there! Were you left much inconvenienced and as hungry as the butterfly?

I've tended to keep clear of contactless, but I know I forget passwords if I'm not asked for them for some time.  Different checkouts seem to have different number pads which can confuse I find. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

yes, my partner despairs that I use the same password for everything (he's doing computing on OU. He's got an assignment coming up on how to explain stuff to people without much digital know how. It's nice to be helpful)

Thankyou for commenting and saying you have the same problem :0)

 

Submitted by airyfairy on

I refused to use contactless for ages precisely because I was afraid I'd forget my PIN if I didn't use it!  I've succumbed now, the lure of a quick swipe across a screen finally got to me.  I find I'm perfectly fine with the PIN  as long as I just do it automatically.  If I stop to think about it for a minute, whether that digit actually comes before or after another digit, I'm sunk.  None of it seems right.  I do use different passwords for different things, and I keep reminders for them, carefully coded so no-one knows which password is for what.  Including me.

Submitted by Di_Hard on

yes, it's the thinking that's the problem for sure. I bet if I never thought about anything I'd be quite clever :0)

Thankyou for commenting Airy. It's great to know I'm not the only one