The Customer by Jeremy Hawkins

For Allison, whose hair was short and mussed, and arms, thick with muscle from years of rock climbing; it wasn't unusual to be addressed as sir. Accustomed to this insult, she even enjoyed confronting it with half-smug humor; but when the man in the gray suit—a customer of the camping store where she worked—called her “sir,” three times as she showed him a two-man tent, she felt justified in saying
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