32. People’s names are assigned at birth.
33. OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.
34. Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.
35. Five years?
36. You’re kidding me, right?
I must know what case there is of this, and who exactly was the poor soul to stumble upon it...
It's not automatic a lot of places, these days. It's just a far simpler/faster process to get the name change done, and most companies and even government agencies won't raise a fuss over a woman filling out a last name that doesn't match her ID, because they'll assume she got married and took her husband's name.
