The Irritants of Modernity - an Occasional Series

Supposedly someone in the 19th century left a suicide note that read as follows:

I weary of all this buttoning & unbuttoning.

It may have been an Englishman or a Frenchman. It may be apocryphal. In any case, I think the modern version would read thus:

I weary of all this two-step verification.

I know it's for my own good and I should appreciate the exercise involved in regularly having to run up two flights of stairs to get my telephone and find the code that I must never share with anyone. All the same, I liked it better when I didn't have to.