OK, I really am getting old.
The other day, I was at a grocery store I had never been in before, and the clerk insisted on getting a phone number. I gave her an old one I don't have anymore. Just now, I was in a dollar store and they wanted my birthdate because I bought a couple of movies from the bargain bin. I made one up. Both of these incidents have two things in common: Demanding personal information in front of God and everybody without batting an eye just to accommodate a stupid computer system, and some stranger acting surprised that I would not just give it. I'll bet it didn't even occur to them,who are much younger than I am, that anyone might find that threatening. But then, we live in a day and age where some punk with a website dares to say something to the effect of, "Privacy is a thing of the past. Get over it." I think it was Zuckerberg. 
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