It always seemed weird to me that my parents waited so long to get around to it, and that it wasn't automatically done by the hospital at my birth.

I didn't get mine until I was going to start my first summer job. This has now been an issue every time I apply for a mortgage or home loan.

I have no earthly idea where my SS card is. I've known the number by heart ever since I applied for college, but the card itself has vanished into the ether.

I got an SS # as a baby, I'm pretty sure, but I'm pretty sure that was unusual then -- I was in some study, and got paid for it. But the actual card I have is from my teen years, not sure why.

I'm watching an old CSI, and Kate Walsh is on as a transexual. Ha.

I first got a SSN when I was about 5. Then I got a new card when I was 16 and getting a summer job, because my parents had lost my old card. Then I got another new card my senior year of college when I was getting a job and I couldn't find my old one. And right now, I'm honestly not sure where that one is.

I had a SSN as an infant, because my parents were super responsible and started a savings account for each child pretty much at birth. I've gone through many cards, because I keep losing them. I think I have one in my wallet, which I know I'm not supposed to.

I hadn't seen my SS card for years (or for that matter, my birth certificate) so I just ended up getting new ones over the past couple of years. I just saw them today in my big office filing re-org so I know I still have 'em!

I had to get a new copy of my birth certificate a couple of years ago, too. I don't remember why. It lives in my fire-proof safe, now. Right now it is off at whatever office issues passports, but it should get back to me and back in the safe soon.

I went and got a SS card when I got my first job in my teens. My brother and I went together. They gave me mine on the spot, but had to mail him his because they had to be 11 numbers apart and they had to wait for a few more people to come in. I should ask him what his number ended up being. My kids got them at birth.

My mom got me a SS# when I was four, I think. At my elementary school they once had a thing where all the kids lined up and went past a desk where we told a lady our SS# and - I dunno what it was for. All I really remember is being so nervous that I'd forget my number that I memorized it, and when the lady asked me, I blurted it out so fast she actually jumped. The other kids were reading theirs off their cards or pieces of paper; I don't know why I thought I had to know it by heart! But hey, I still remember it.

I have 2 cards b/c I thought I lost my original, went and got a replacement a few years ago, then found the original.

mac went and looked at rocket ships today. he is also now immitating me and saying everything is "cool".