How many different things in our lives require passwords? I try to keep the same password for all my accounts, but sometimes it doesn't work. The password to access my e-mail at the Globe-News has to be changed every 90 days. Facebook requires another; My home e-mail is another.
When I was in school I had to remember my locker combination.
Just too many letters and numbers to remember. My wife tanya doesn't even bother remembering telephone numbers. She just adds them to her cell phone and voila! I'm more old-fashioned: I have some numbers saved on my cell phone, but I have a telephone directory filled with scraps of paper that have phone numbers. Sometimes I have names connected to the numbers and some are just mystery numbers I have no idea who they belong to, and I'm not calling to find out who they are, lest they confirm that I'm an idiot.May daughter April can't stand it if there's a number on our caller ID and the person didn't leave a message. She'll call the mystery number, only to find out was a wrong number dialed or a telemarketer who hung up when they got our electronic greeting on the answering machine.
There are just too many ways to get confused over modern communications these days.