As fewer and fewer people go in for the standard get married, change the wife's name and have kids model; the security question, "What's your mother's maiden name?" becomes less and less meaningful.
I feel like something of a clown even asking it when it's the same as the person calling's name.
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Heh, yeah I've got that problem. Being a bastard is rough, when I tell them my mothers maiden name they say "no, the name she had before she got married" and I repeat the same name and get the same response. Then I say, "she never got married, dumbass, that's why my last name is her maiden name". And yes, I do say dumbass. If you can't figure it out then your not bright. Especially when the call center employee asking is half my age. Get with it, women have kids out of wedlock a hell of a lot more today. And some of them have kids with more than one guy, having 5 kids with 5 different last names, now that's confusing.
Hah! Don't even get me started on that one. I also set up a product that allows people to look up their childrens Electronic Medical Records without actually seeing them in person or usually seeing the paperwork. I'm not supposed to be the one doing it but I'm the one who gets to fix it when it's done wrong initially.
When everyone has the same last name, it's pretty easy to get everything taken care of without hassling the patient until it's all fixed but when they all have different last names, there's no way to know from my remote location and the whole thing takes way longer than it would for a "traditional" family.
It's not like anyone's to blame or anything but it sure makes the beauracracy smoother when everyone has the same last name.
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