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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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