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posted Sunday, 24 February 2008

I had my (I believe) second obscene phone call at the library yesterday. I actually can't believe if a) I had a first one and b) if I did, what it was, but I have a feeling this wasn't my first. Anyway, a guy calls up and says "I'm researching my fertility and...my computer's not working and I heard there was a good article about sperm production in Men's Health. Could you look it up for me?" 10% of my brain thought it could be legit, so I started typing but as I did, I politely informed him that, "Even if I do find it, you'll still have to come into the library and print it out." He was crestfallen - "Oh....you can't just...read it to me over the phone?" I signed off with a very firm but polite "No, I absolutely cannot read you an entire article over the phone." And to top it all off, he'd first called the circ desk and our clerk transferred it to me "Just to see your face!!" I of course went running over to circ after it happened, and she was already giggling. Naughty thing. But it livened up our Saturday, for sure.

The thing I don't get is, what was the sexy part? A woman saying the word sperm?

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