Moby Thick
(A customer comes to our help desk, looking upset.)
Customer: “My daughter’s teacher assigned this book. It’s totally inappropriate for a twelve-year-old! I was hoping you could suggest something else.”
Me: “What’s the book, ma’am?”
Customer: ”I don’t want to say the name out loud. There are children present.”
(The customer hands over the assigned reading list. The book is ‘Moby Dick’.)
Me: “It’s not a dirty book, ma’am. Moby Dick is a story about a man and his hunt to kill an elusive white whale. It’s actually rather good. I read it when I was about your daughter’s age.”
Customer: “Well, they should name it something different. You should tell the author person he needs to change the name.”
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