Humor Too Close To Reality

An Instagram video is suppose to be posted here but, I had to delete it because Google something or other changed the link from the reposted video to my Instagram account. 😱

I confirmed the link directs to the copied and pasted video. Next I check the link, the video is replaced. It might have to do with how apps work. Whatever it is, that snafu is on my top ten utterly dumb Google glitches. 

Anyway, the video is from the laughingsnchor on Instagram. Hilarious! 🤣 About: a wife asks husband to take her to an expensive place for her birthday. He takes her to a gas station.

Gmail Glitch

The Gmail account recovery system Google has in place, I believe, has a major flaw.

I manage to reset a password.

I log in using the new password.

I update personsl information, email and phone number.

I make sure the recovery email and phone number are updated.

I click on the Gmail icon

A log in page appears.

I enter the password.

Password is rejected.

Start password reset

Get code at recovery email address.

Change password.

Log in with password

Click Gmail icon

Password required is rejected

Code can be sent to phone number, but it is the phone I no longer have access to. No other option is given. Waiting a day or so doesn’t help. 

Chat program results: since multiple tries without success, open another account.

Google Gmail account recovery has a major flaw that is years old. To date, it has not been fixed. I hope tomorrow, just maybe, this time the system catches up and stops using my old phone number and/or stops blocking me from the Gmail email feature. 

23 January 2026-Gmail still blocked by old phone number. Help Chat doesn’t understand the problem, gives me account recovery option that does not apply to the old phone number problem