Bevendre

fetch26291 replied to your post: Friendly reminder that when paperwork/applications…

These days, it’s one of the top reasons a child calls their mother. To get the correct answer. In fact, you should ask anyone who asks what it is: Can you call your Mom? If they answer yes, then tell them: Call her & ask.

Except it’s not a matter of them knowing the mother’s maiden name, it’s a matter of them putting it down in the paperwork.  A lot of things require some form of security to verify identity during maintenance and phone calls, especially credit cards.  If you don’t have information like that noted down properly then best case scenario is that it takes longer to verify security and get done what you want done, and worst case is that it doesn’t work out at all because the misentered info can interfere with background checks.

That aside, do you really want to tell grown men and women to call their mommys to ask for her maiden name when they’re trying to get information pertinent to their job and finances?  That’s a great way to embarass someone and piss them off.