Reply #27: I got one back in the late '80's. [View All]

[Iggo]

I didn't fill it out. Months later, they sent a couple of census-takers to "help" me fill it out. When they finally stopped speaking Spanish (I have a Spanish surname, so of course I must prefer being spoken to in Spanish) I made them fill it out for me. And I was a complete dick about it. To be compelled by a government entity to give up all that personal information just didn't sit well with me.

To be clear, I don't have any problem with the Spanish language. Beautiful language, and I speak it (poorly) whenever I feel like it and whenever I need to. I'm not one of those English-only idiots. I rightly believe that people need to speak whatever language or languages they need to to get by. It's only logical. It's just that I've had a lifetime of people trying to speak to me in my "native language" without ever asking what my native language is. They're usually people trying to sell me something. But in this case it was government types, and I got kinda pissed.

Anyway, yeah. I got one. Didn't fill it out. Census-takers showed up at my door and made sure it got filled out.