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April 18, 2006
I love the color green / because it reminds me of you
What’s the deal with social security numbers? Everyone gets a number. There are XXX,XXX,XXX numbers possible. 999 million. According to google, there are 295,734,134 people in the US. Hmmm, that is enough numbers to for repetition to be really far in the future. Did someone get 000-00-0001? I doubt it. I seem to believe that SS #s are assigned geographically. I believe that my dad (having been born in the same state I and my sister were) has the same first 3 digits…or at least close. My sister and I have sequeical SS #s. Though I am older, she has XXX-XX-XX00 and I have XXX-XX-XX01. Crazy. We are 16 months apart. Obviously my parents were slackers about registering my identity…or efficient and decided to just wait to do it together.
Ha ha.
We are laying sod out in front of the building. We have a smallish strip of land. It has been full of dead and half dead plants since the building was built in 1997. One of our neighbors decided to do something about it. I pushed for sod, just because our dog population is growing and grass is better to pick up poop from than wood chips (I think, not that I know). Sod, it turns out, it pretty easy to lay…and not that expensive for our little piece of land.
Every time I think about sod, I cannot escape a childhood memory. My parents laid sod in our backyard when I was really really young. During the process, someone found a snake in the sod pile. It was quite the excitement. I seem to remember a shovel causing the end of the snake excitement.
Posted by christina at April 18, 2006 5:09 PM
Comments
Social security numbers didn't used to be mandatory. My Mom got mine and my sisters when we were in PA, where we didn't move until I was 4 or 5, so it definitely wasn't required before then.
Also, numbers are re-used, I *think*, though not by concurrently living people.
Posted by: Jennifer at April 20, 2006 11:33 PM
That's funny that you and your sister have sequential numbers. Brian and I have numbers that are 10 apart or something, and we are twins!!
Posted by: katie at April 24, 2006 10:19 AM