I look forward to explaining this to my own children one day. Or perhaps to my cats. Or plants. Or just to the wall. I have commitment issues.
So today has started off well. So far, all before lunch, I have:
Me: “Calm down, it’s going to be okay. We can reset your password.”
Stu: “It’s not even worth it. You know what? I just can’t … I just … it’s not even worth it. I don’t care anymore, anyway. I mean … I just. I have to go, I have to go now.”
Me: “Look, look at me. It’s all right. I’m here with you, we’ll get through this together. Your account was locked out, but look, I unlocked it for you. See, all better. Now, all you have to do is enter a new password, here and here. It’ll be all right.”
Student begins typing in a new password
Me: “It has to be between six and fourteen characters, and it can’t be the same as any of your previous five passwords.”
Stu: “What!? What!!! Oh my god, oh my fucking god, I can’t deal with this. This is just … oh god! How many? Okay, what? Six … fourt … ummm, I can’t, wait … no, okay.”
Student enters in the word “god”. It doesn’t work.
Me: “No, look, it has to be between six and fourteen-”
Stu: “Fuck you! You know what, fuck you! I don’t need this! You’re supposed to HELP me! Fuck … you know what, just fuck you!”
Student killed me with a computer monitor and stormed out, crying.
So okay, I guess that didn’t go so well.
After lunch. Well, I have big plans for after lunch.
Secret plans …