Savage Airline Asks Customers “What Is The Name Of Your Favourite Child” In Security Question

If you’re a human who lives on planet Earth, you’ve probably forgotten a password before. Actually, let me change that first sentence to If you’re a human under the age of 65 who lives on planet Earth, you’ve probably forgotten a password before. 

I say under the age of 65 because everyone knows that every single grandparent in the world uses password as their password, as if it were illegal to use anything else. The really creative oldies use passw0rd, which stumps even the most skilled of hackers. At any rate, password is incredibly easy to remember.

However, if you’re a young person who’s aware of the risks associated with a weak password, you probably have a password like il78dixiebob87%$, which one can easily forget.

And so the computer, disappointed by your absent-mindedness, offers a helping hand by asking you some security questions you set up before you chose your password.

(BUT WHAT IF YOU ALSO FORGOT THE ANSWERS TO THE SECURITY QUESTIONS?)

These questions are usually trivial things like:

1. Which football team do you support?
2. What is the name of your pet?
3. What is your mother’s middle name?

JetBlue chose to go a different route, however, asking parents the one question they can’t answer.

“What Is The Name Of Your Favourite Child”

As the headline says, JetBlue customers who were setting up their accounts had to answer the security question “What is the name of your favourite child?”

Now, if you find this question easy to answer, let me congratulate you on being a bad parent.

I’m kidding, of course, I believe most parents have a favourite child, though they’d never admit it, especially to their kids.

Whenever I asked my mother who her favourite child was, she said that in the same way she has two distinct but equally functional eyes, she loved both my brother and me equally. If she had a third kid she would have been screwed though.

Netizen responses 

The odd security question was shared on Twitter, and netizens had some amusing answers.

Another said  “I would get it wrong all the time, my favorite would be the one that hasn’t p***ed me off in the last 24 hours… that changes constantly.”

I don’t have kids right now, but if I ever do have them in the future I’ll be frank with them; I’ll just tell them who I like more. If I have two, I’ll tell both that the other one is my favourite so they’ll keep trying hard to impress me.

I’m going to be a great father someday.