• RaoulDook@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    One semi-nice restaurant I went to wanted me to give them my cell number so I could be notified when our table was ready, and I declined. The host-greeter seemed to have a brain malfunction about that temporarily but he eventually figured out that he could just call my name when it was ready and my ears could receive his message. Of course I looked like a weirdo causing “problems” to the rest of the crowd who were complacent enough to hand out their digits to the restaurant computer.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s weird how complacent about data everyone is. I was buying a book a couple of weeks ago and they asked for my email address. I said “no thanks” and the cashier started typing “nothanks” and then blinked and was like “wa… what?”. I told them I’m not interested in sharing my email address to buy a book, and their brain melted. They were like “but you have to!” to which I replied “no, I really don’t”. They had to call a manager over because they didn’t even know how to complete a transaction without an email address.