Bad drivers on the road provide more than enough danger. Bad flyers in the air are even scarier. And folks on the ground will have to factor in the odds of being hit by falling bodies when out and about.
I don’t choose use it as an identifying number but some discount programs, such as Petsmart do. Your name is still associated with it, like it or not. If you would not announce your SSN out loud in public, don’t do so with your cell number.
Don’t you just love it when a “polite” person in one of the oncoming two lanes decides to wave you on to make your left turn, totally oblivious to the fact that traffic in the lane next to them continues to flow.
“I have never made a mistake. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.”