Parse this: sock knitting club

Where does the insuperable problem lie?

Imagine that you are a bank in Oregon. One of your clients, Blue Moon Fiber Arts, is a company that sells yarn. They sell quite a lot of yarn, and other knitting-related things. You process a lot of credit card payments for them.

Good so far, right? Stay with me.

You notice a surge in payments, and ask them to explain, to make sure nothing hinky is going on. They tell you that they are taking subscriptions for their annual sock knitting club, which is why there are suddenly more payments coming in.

Do you (remember, you're the bank):

A) Say, 'Well, yes, it is the end/beginning of the year, an annual club would account for that, thank you for explaining,' and go on to the next account;

B) Say, 'Really, that many people are signing up for a sock knitting club, are they? I'll just call a few to verify that the charges are legitimate';

C) Say, 'That can't possibly be right, there can't possibly be that many people spending that much money on a sock yarn club, it must be a scam and we will have no part of it, we will be refunding all monies and taking no further part (although the rest of your business is fine with us).'

Three guesses which happened.

You can read more at the Yarn Harlot's site, where the post has gotten more comments than what I imagine was the previous record, after she and Joe ended their godless heathen union (got married). She posted this story yesterday, and this morning the comments were on the way to 500. Commenters are discussing boycotts of the as-yet-unnamed bank, and sit-ins, and knit-ins, and sending them socks*, and sending the new bank socks because why grace the bad old bank with them, and lawsuits, and publicity, and it's a little crazy in there.

* Not, in my opinion, that this is the best way to convince them that knitters are a sane, responsible group, having hundreds of unsolicited hand-knit socks show up out of the blue at a bank, but hey, we're also a group with some things in common and many diverging ideas. I wouldn't presume to speak for all knitters, just because I knit.

[I do wish, though, that we could stop with the men-bashing in this thread. Maybe most knitters are women, but not all. Maybe most clueless non-knitters are men, but not all. Just ask Franklin, who knits excellently, or the woman who asked him if he learned "in prison". I'm not saying that there wasn't discrimination in this case, I just agree with one of the Harlot's many commenters, who said that cluelessness crosses gender lines. Anyway, there are plenty of non-knitters who would never have made the mistake of underestimating knitters this severely. Most of them probably live with a knitter, or have one in their lives, but I think that's the way to covert them: one on one. End rant.]

Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out which word set off the alarm bells at the bank.

Sock.

Knitting.

Club.

Sock. BMFA sells sock yarn separately, so that can't be it.

Knitting. Everything they sell has something to do with knitting.

Club?

I just don't get it.

They actually call it the Rockin' Sock Club. Is "Rockin'" a dangerous word now?