Woman's Tap Dance Classes Confused With Lap Dances

A woman is experiencing a case of mistaking identity; not of her personal identity, but of what she offers.

When Helen Hart tried to jumpstart business at her house by putting up a sign for adult tap dancing classes, the 79-year-old grandma started fielding calls for adult lap dancing services.

"I get up to 17 calls a week," Helen tells Sacramento's CBS affiliate.

"I'm nearly 80, so age does mean something. Can you imagine a man coming to the door and I open the door and I go, 'Yeah?' He goes, 'Oh, never mind.'"

The average age for Helen's tap-dancing students is about 60 years old. Some of her students don't think it would be such a bad thing if people thought they were coming by as part of a lap dance service.

Helen says when men call, she just tells them to bring their daughters over so she can teach them to tap dance. That usually ends the conversation.

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