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AIBU?

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Original poster

I know it's stupid, but this has really pissed me off.

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Obliviated · 12/04/2016 09:49

DP got a new laptop for Christmas, today I text him and asked him if I could use it as mine is broken, he says of course I can and sends me the password - his ex girlfriends name. I text him back saying 'are you fucking kidding me?' and he called straight away to say it's an old password that he's always been able to remember. Lovely.

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LizardBreath · 12/04/2016 11:50

I totally agree with you, BUT! I am also guilty of this, up until recently my ex was email and Amazon passwords. I've been with husband for 10 years!! Our laziness that I didn't change them, and then husband asked to use my Amazon account and I realised how weird it sounded to him. All changed now :

Divathecat · 12/04/2016 12:08

My password is a company that I worked for in 2001, I don't imagine that my current employer would be jealous if they knew.

I wouldn't read too much into it tbh, wouldn't bother me.

DropYourSword · 12/04/2016 12:45

He can't work out his new password. I've been giving him clues.

Maybe his ex treated him more pleasantly. You sound a bit mean.

Mousefinkle · 12/04/2016 12:54

My ExH's name is still the username for the sky account because they wouldn't let me change billpayer name. So when I log into my sky account or now tv account it's his bloody name in capital letters. OH was on my laptop wanting to choose a film on Now TV and saw it, he was a bit shocked so had to explain.

Sounds like it's a default PW he doesn't think about anymore. I use the same two for everything. One of them is the name of a dodgy band I used to love when I was 14, stuck as a PW since then.

RustyBear · 12/04/2016 12:59

I'd be more worried about how many other things he was using that password for - hopefully not internet banking, especially if it's just the name in plain letters.

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Obliviated · 12/04/2016 13:11

Im terribly mean, teasing him about his new password, we were having a joke about it. Like, having fun. Lightheartedly.

I don't know his passwords to anything else, his phone and ipad are always unlocked and his email and fb accounts are already logged into. I bet he doesn't remember the passwords for them. I think his online banking is just numbers.

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lorelei9here · 12/04/2016 13:16

I wouldn't give 2 hoots.

cozietoesie · 12/04/2016 13:18

In the last couple of months I've had 3 attempted phishing emails from friends with compromised email accounts and one which was likely via a large online supermarket.

Just sayin'. Get different passwords for things which are in any way significant.

QuimReaper · 12/04/2016 13:19

he had a circumcision on Saturday that went horribly wrong

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Obliviated · 12/04/2016 13:24

I know

He decided to have it under local anesthetic, everyone else seemed to be having a general, but he went ahead anyway. Except it seemed to stop working half way through, and all of a sudden he could feel the scaple. He said it was the most pain he's ever been in. They topped the anesthetic up but it didn't take any effect and the anthetist had gone home so they couldn't knock him out. They had to abandon it and stitch what they could, with no pain relief. It's not a pretty sight. He's got to back and have it finished.

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PegsPigs · 12/04/2016 13:30

I would have responded similarly OP. And then as you have calmed down and realised people get attached to passwords so it's nothing personal to you.

Ouch. I had something similar with laser eye surgery but at least I didn't have to go back to have it finished off. Poor him.

DropYourSword · 12/04/2016 13:43

we were having a joke about it. Like, having fun. Lightheartedly

Yeah, you didn't sound so lighthearted being 'really pissed off' about it though.

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Obliviated · 12/04/2016 13:50

I said about midway down that I had gotten over my initial knee jerk reaction of being pissed off. I wasn't annoyed by the time he got home.

He won't be able to go and get it finished for ages as he's back on the waiting list now. It shouldn't be sore after the stitches has dissolved though. It's ruined my argument that child birth beats everything though. This definetly looks more painful. He's not really complained about it though but I can see him wincing when he moves.

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Lweji · 12/04/2016 14:09

As passwords go, nobody would just guess a previous girlfriend.
People usually go for current significant others and relatives, or pets.

Give him a break. :)

I'd have changed the password to "areyoufuckingkiddingme".

Long passwords are better too. But easy to decode with a programme, because it includes real words.

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