Is Jr. having a nervous breakdown?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. When I meet someone with a large number after his name,

I sometimes say out loud, "Huh. Not an original idea in four (or whatever) generations."

In the mid 1960s I worked for the Credit Bureau, in Tucson, AZ. Over and over again I saw the problem with naming a son "junior". Typically, the dad did not bother to use "senior", and often the son was equally casual about using "junior." If the son still lived at home, they had the same address. So now, junior is 18 or so, working at his first job, and trying to establish credit. With the exact same name and address, various clerks who dealt with the paperwork were often a bit careless about such things as the precise date of birth. The result was, that junior and senior's credit information became hopelessly confused. This was an especial problem when one of them was careless about such things as paying bills on time. While it was a bit more likely for that to be a problem with junior, sometimes it was senior who was the deadbeat. No matter. Either way, there was almost no chance of separating their credit information. If they'd had different names in the first place, this wouldn't have happened.

Had I married a man who thought our first son should be a junior, he'd have quickly learned how totally opposed I was to that. Fortunately, the man I did marry had zero interest in that.