I just got a new Palm® Centro^TM smartphone and I love it! More on that later....

Supra has approved it as a lockbox key! Yippee! That was fast! They ususally take 3-4 months to approve new devices. But when I talked to them at the NAR Convention, they said it was a go! So, I came home and bought one.

I went to the association office to get it set up and the young man behind the counter is half way through the process when he hands it back and says you need to answer one of these three secret questions.

The display says:

1. Who was your first employer?
2. What was your first pet's name?

3. What was your school mascot?

I stared. I tried to scroll down for different questions....I stared some more..

I finally said,"I don't know the answer to any of these!" He said,"Make something up."

So I choose pet's name, remembering I had a parakeet and wrote BIRD

The screen said,"Must contain 5 letters" Whew, this is getting difficult..but I fixed it. Now, I will never rememeber it, but I really wanted this to be my lockbox key!

I was feeling pretty inept, when it finally hit me......The programmers were Gen Y that were not that far removed from those questions. Fo me, we were talking over 40 years ago!!!!!And they want me to remember WHAT???? I went to an all girl's school and we had no freakin' MASCOT!!!!

Some days I realize there IS a generation gap!!!!!