Going by the reaction you get when you say "why do you need my phone number" or "I'm not telling you my address", pretty much everyone just gives it up without a second thought.
Some poor kid at Radio Shack got so flustered about it once and couldn't answer why my phone number was required to make some piddling little purchase that he looked nervously over both shoulders and said "I just put my own phone number in there" and away I went.
It's not like I was pressing him or being aggressive or trying to prove some point, I just asked.
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