> > > > For the first time since the Vietnam era, Americans are burning their cards. But this time it's not draft registration cards. It's AARP cards.
> > >
> > > What are AARP cards?
> >
> > Just membership cards. Most organizations use them.
> > Howard
>
> The only reason I know what an AARP card is cause they keep sending my twenty-nine year old husband mail that is intended for his fifty-six year old father. They are a junior and senior so people mix them up all the time.
> Mrs_Grishny

I have to ask, why is it so common in American culture to have junior/seniors in the first place? Why do people name their children after themselves? One of my former coworkers is an American living in Finland. He has a "III" after his name so I guess that makes him a "junior junior".