gregjohn wrote:
> Mrs. Baker, I'm trying to get through on the phone to Washington to get a SSN
> for your baby. 

More like "I'm waiting for the long-distance operator to call me back when 
there's a free line all the way to Washington."

Since SSNs were originally for Social Security and not as a national ID to 
start with (and indeed the original legislation prohibited its use as an ID 
number even in *other* parts of the Internal Revenue Service), most people 
only got them when they started working.  I got mine in high school, and 
that only because I was offered to have the school handle delivering the 
paperwork. Otherwise, I probably would have waited until I was out of 
college or otherwise needed the number.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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