If he never picked up his social security card....

You and Matthewsmommy make the same point, and I think you're right, but that's essentially what I'm asking: If you never had a "real" job or started adult paperwork, would you eventually turn up on some state or federal database as a person who (based on Social Security database) was born enough years ago that by now they should have received taxes from you? Perhaps the answer's just "no," but that's what I'm wondering.

-Oss

...first by writing to the last address they have for you, which would probably be your parents.
-oss

I had to laugh at that. It's been decades since I lived at my parent's, who are deceased. I couldn't imagine anyone trying to reach me through them.

But Trish and Mad American are correct. Jack dropped out before he dropped in, so there was never a record of him at a real job.

If he never picked up his social security card....

It's conceivable that when Jack was a youth, you had to have a job before you could get a SS#. That's how it was back in the day for me.

Glad to be of service, oss! (BTW, you went from Ossicle, to oss, and now you're at -o......what's going on here? )

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That's exactly what it made me think of! That movie was just on last weekend!

That's exactly what it made me think of! That movie was just on last weekend!

Neat! I haven't seen it since I was a kid. (Loved it then.) I read it a few years ago, though -- wonderful book. Depressing, though, like so much of Matheson's work.

-Oss (back to full size!)

Neat! I haven't seen it since I was a kid. (Loved it then.) I read it a few years ago, though -- wonderful book. Depressing, though, like so much of Matheson's work.

-Oss (back to full size!)

I remember watching (and loving) that movie as a kid, so I was trying to get Matthew to watch it. That didn't happen. He thought the cat was cool, but got bored rather quickly.

I remember watching (and loving) that movie as a kid, so I was trying to get Matthew to watch it. That didn't happen. He thought the cat was cool, but got bored rather quickly.

I see you're located between Knoxville and Chatanooga -- do you like that area? The gf and I sometimes consider relocating to Tennessee, as I've heard a lot of good things about it. I have a fond memory of your area, as I wrote my college thesis on a short story about the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, and after college I went and visited the site.

You and Matthewsmommy make the same point, and I think you're right, but that's essentially what I'm asking: If you never had a "real" job or started adult paperwork, would you eventually turn up on some state or federal database as a person who (based on Social Security database) was born enough years ago that by now they should have received taxes from you? Perhaps the answer's just "no," but that's what I'm wondering.

-Oss

Well, you aren't in the Social Security database until you are registered. I was a teenager before I got a social Securtiy number. My mom registered my sister and I. Had she not done that, we they wouldn't have known we existed. Apparently Jack's dad never got him hooked up.

I see you're located between Knoxville and Chatanooga -- do you like that area? The gf and I sometimes consider relocating to Tennessee, as I've heard a lot of good things about it. I have a fond memory of your area, as I wrote my college thesis on a short story about the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, and after college I went and visited the site.

We have some of the craziest, shittiest, most gorgeous weather. Eighty degrees last week, highs of 58 this week, back in the 70's next. Heat isn't horrible in the summer, but the humidity sucks. It's generally a nice area and the rednecks are really funny. Lots of entertainment just watching them.