Life: Find Something To Laugh About

Jack R. Noel
September 18, 2023

Just this morning I went online to access my bank account. But I decided to be extra safe and turned on my VPN and used the “Private Window” feature on my Firefox Browser.

I then entered my “User Name” in the required Sign In box. But instead of the usual “enter password” which is normally the next and final step, I was presented with the “I am not a robot” checkbox. This is as you know now standard and mandatory to access your important accounts. (And who can live without access to the Internet these days?)

But then I was presented with a segmented image from which I was to select those that had “a bicycle.” Having cataracts made this a bit difficult given the poor image quality. So I checked about six boxes, which only caused another segmented image to appear with the need to identify “ buses.” Five checked boxes showing “buses” brought up another segmented image where I had to check all the segments with “crosswalks.” Five more checked boxes brought up another segmented image showing “traffic lights”, then another image with “motorcycles” and I thought I was done. But no, then came the image with “stairs.” The cycle just repeated: “bicycle,” “bus,” “crosswalk,” “traffic lights,” and “stairs.”

After completing four cycles, I was pissed off but thought I should be seeing my account information but no. I was presented with another blank box, this time for “your temporary PIN code number. That number was sent to my…