2010 Census Follow-up Phone Call

I had an interesting experience yesterday.  I got a phone call from the 2010 Census following up on the census form that our household submitted. 

You see, we had overnight houseguests on April 1st.  Question 2 asked if "there were any additional people staying here April 1, 2010 that you did not include in Question 1?"  So I marked the box that said relatives.  Seems the Census Bureau wanted to know more about that.  I think they were partly verifying I had understood the questions when I filled out the form.  However, they wanted the name, sex, age and all of the other information the census form asked of people living in our house.

So I guess the information will be there when it's released in 72 years.  Maybe our descendants will wonder why the cousins spent the night with us on April 1, 2010.  Ha - probably not but just in case, I've made a note on my copy of our census form.  They were on their way to hike the Grand Canyon.  I've included a picture too just for fun.

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