Abbreviating Name on Official Documents?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday July 20, 2004 @04:50AM from the civil-servants-and-a-lack-of-common-sense dept.

harlows_monkeys asks: "I went through a bit of a hassle getting a replacement SS card, because my name in their records is 'Timothy' but my driver's license says 'Tim'. They seemed surprised and a little bit suspicious over my going by 'Tim' when my legal name is 'Timothy'. Looking over things, I see that I'm 'Tim' on my driver's license, health and auto insurance, credit and bank cards, bank accounts, mutual funds, paychecks, W-2, and tax returns. I'm 'Timothy' to the SS office, and on my auto lease (but 'Tim' on my auto registration). The SS office warned me that this mismatch would cause problems. Has anyone else run into this? Should I be going around and changing my records everywhere to say 'Timothy' to match my Social Security records?"

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Good reason to give kids lots of middle names by timothy · 2004-07-20 12:18 · Score: 0, Troll

I'd like to make sure my kids all have names likely to cause trouble with Big Brother's computers. Sure, depending on their temperment, it might not be so fun for *them* (the kids) but I think after a certain age they'd either like the idea and therefore stick to it stubbornly, or (peace with honor) drop most of them.

timothy

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