Did you know your grandparents ?

[Flick of the Elbow]

Got very irritated at work recently by their selection of verification questions for asking for a password reset. Amongst the questions was name of my paternal grandfather. I've absolutely no idea of the names of either of my grandfathers, one died in the 1920's, I believe of malaria contracted whilst fighting in Mesopotamia during WWI, the other died from a mine dropped on a railway station during WWII. He was on Home Guard duty at the time. Nor did I know my grandmothers, one died when I was a toddler the other when I was 11, I sort of knew her but I've no idea what her name was. Am I alone in thinking this a completely unreasonable question to be asked for a password reset at work ?

 

[Over The Hill]

Only 1 of the 4 here.

I guess you can make something up but then it is remembering it for next time.

 

[vernon]

Don't see what the fuss is all about. Use your father's name then you won't forget it.

You do know who your father is?

 

[TVC]

My final grandparent died three months before I arrived, so I never had a granny or gramps. I did have a couple of brilliant pairs of aunts and uncles who did a fantastic job as stand ins.

 

[ScotiaLass]

I knew my maternal grandfather.
My maternal grandmother died of breast cancer when my mum was only 17.
I never met my paternal grandparents. Both died within a year of each other, and before I was born.

 

[dan_bo]

Nan-Nellie. Used to run a knicker shop on queens road, Harpurhey. Cooked my tea when I got home from school. Knew me gran and grandad cant remember their names but i can remember getting a banana and a 50p piece from them when i was dicking about with action men behind their settee.

Does that count?

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I'm upset because the question smacks of ageism. I suspect that many of my age, over 50, would be hard pressed to answer this. I suspect that the question was selected by somebody considerably younger who doesn't appreciate that many of our grandfathers failed to make it through the war.

 

[vernon]

I never met my paternal grandparents. The Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea kept us apart. I was curious enough to ask my father what their names were and my memory is sound enough to retain the information.

I'll lend my paternal grandfather's name, Standford, FOC to the OP.

 

[vernon]

I'm upset because the question smacks of ageism. I suspect that many of my age, over 50, would be hard pressed to answer this. I suspect that the question was selected by somebody considerably younger who doesn't appreciate that many of our grandfathers failed to make it through the war.

I think you are being a tad over sensitive. Like I said in an earlier post, you can borrow Standford.

 

[Brandane]

Paternal Grandfather died before I was born, but I knew the rest. Paternal Grandmother died when I was 9 (1971) then maternal Grandfather in 1972.
Maternal Grandmother lived until the age of 88, until she died in 1988, thereby outliving my mother by 10 years .

 

[dan_bo]

I'm upset because the question smacks of ageism. .

Twaddle.

 

[Piemaster]

Fortunate enough to have known all of them. My Gran only died last year, a practical curmudgeonly battleaxe who was never afraid of speaking her mind and could make me laugh doing it. A testament to a generation that lived through the Blitz of Hull. Her brother didn't.
She was brilliant.

 

[spen666]

some people seem to want to be offended

So what if you never met your grandparents. That does not stop you knowing their names!

You can find offence with any question if you want to?

Try to MTFU and get a life. Its far more fun when you are not deliberately looking for things to get offended about

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Edgar. My folks bottled out of naming me after him as they thought it was a bit old fashioned, I think it's good name, I'd have been happy with it.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

2/4 both of whom lived to 91. I know all 4 names and maiden names.

The other 2: 1 killed in WW2 - a grocers delivery boy who left school at 14 & died aged 23 of an infection after having his badly injured leg amputated while a German POW. the letters he wrote after being badly injured & captured near Arnhem are both tough and inspiring to read. He writes highly of the care and efforts the German medics and nurses put into helping him.

My mums mum died of a massive stroke in 1964. My mum has spoken quite a bit about her recently as it is 50 years since she died.