Blacks Photography, 12:10pm. Lawrence and Yonge.<\/p>\n

I bring my purchase of a battery charger up to the counter. The clerk scans the charger and then asks: “Your phone number?” His hands over over the keys in anticipation.<\/p>\n

“I choose not to give it,” is my standard response. I don’t even give out my postal code if asked. If I’m challenged, I don’t give them my money. Plain and simple.<\/p>\n

“We’ll need it for referencing your purchase if you need to return it,” he sputters upitty, as if I’ve just asked him to sodomize himself with his UPC scanner.<\/p>\n

“You don’t keep records of the receipt numbers on your bills?” <\/p>\n

“Oh all right,” he says and taps noisily into his cash keyboard.<\/p>\n

I’m just as uppity, bitch, when it comes to dinner time and I’m interrupted by telemarketers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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