[rhizome]

My father had memorized a fake Social Security Number that had come as a sample card in a wallet he got in the 1950s. When anybody except the government asked for his SSN and who wouldn't relent on his pushback, he would give them that number.

[kalleboo]

It wasn't 078-05-1120?

https://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/misused.html

[rhizome]

Wow, nice! I don't know if he was one of the 12 in 1977, but he would have been if this is the number he used. Woolworth's totally makes sense. If he were alive, he would poop purple Twinkies at that story. Thanks!

[matt_wulfeck]

How does that work for him for things that do credit checks?

[rhizome]

He's been dead for 10 years, but he didn't use it for those. As I remember it, in the 80s-90s it was more common for SSNs to be requested for normal consumer things.

[thatwebdude]

!!!!!!! Can't wait for those numbers to leak out!

[rhizome]

I gotta say, it's possible he never actually used it in my lifetime, but he could sure tell that story and rattle off the digits at a moment's prompting.