Lost in translation

Even Worse

I have to answer questions about the address where my EX-wife lives (and I have never lived there).

I've hit worse

A financial company. They wouldn't accept my address because I omitted the "avenue".

1) I have seen conflicting information on what the street is actually named. Legally it appears that there is no "avenue". Once I correctly guessed what was omitted I had no problem doing an address change!

2) I live in a city that has for many years prohibited names that could cause such confusion, anyway. Street names must not be too similar to existing streets. (This is quite understandable. Growing up it got to the point that when the cops showed up Friday night we simply told them that they had the wrong address, the street they wanted was two blocks that {pointing) way. The street names differed by only one letter and to get to that street you had to turn onto ours first.)

Grandmother's maiden name

I once used my grandmother's maiden name for a security question. But when I actually had to answer it for the helpdesk about two years later, I could not remember which grandmother. I first guessed Heissfeld, which is my mother's mother's name. When the woman said, "No", I said, "Sorry, wrong grandmother" and replied with my father's mother's name.

Abbreviations are difficult...

I had a somewhat similar experience with a help desk tech when I told her my name was "Jim". "Sorry, that's not the name we have on record," was her reply.
"How about James?"
"Yes, that is correct."
:-)

THIS SUOND LIKE USER FRENEDLY SCURIRITY

THE LSAT TIOME I CALLED TO ORDOR SMOE MOVITATOINAL TAPES FORM HOTBBABES.CMOM I HAD TO GVIVE THEM MY SOCAIL SCRIURITY NUBMER MYT GRAGRAGE DOOR COODE AND THE COBMINATOIN TO THE SAFE IN MY OFFRICE I ASLO HAD TO MAIL THEM MY ORGINIL BRIRTH CRETTRIFRICATE ID SAY THIS WHINNER DOESNT HAVE ANYTHIG TO CMPOMPLAIN ABOUT