Height of Misunderstanding

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Mr. Sharma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck:
'I have great news: I'm a month overdue. I think we're going to have a baby!
0 P+ `- v( o5 }+ L; PThe doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can't tell anybody.'
5 S# d  A) {2 V( T( lThe next day, Mrs. Sharma receives a telephone call from Reliance Energy because the electricity bill has not been paid.
5 z2 ?, K% T) X, N' ^; w' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
: T! d3 L3 Z7 i" x* b9 t'Yes... speaking'
Reliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
- J/ [- j* R0 W'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the Reliance guy.
'What are you saying? It's in your files ...HOW?????'
' Yes ............ . We have a system of finding out who's overdue '
1 ~3 t; a( A5 \: a; S. h' GOD!!!!!!... ....... This is too much........ ..'
- R( i7 |) ?. ?6 w  t6 I) f'Madam, I am sorry... I am following orders.... I have to inform you are overdue'
( n+ [7 ?% b: @$ m  _'I know that ... let me talk to my husband about this tonight. .... He will speak to your company tomorrow '
That night, she tells her husband about the incident, and he, mad as a bull, rushes to Reliance office the next day morning.
'What's going on? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue?
What business is that of yours?' the husband shouts.
: g0 W, D* g0 Z( l9 t'Just calm down,' says the lady at the reception at Reliance, 'it's nothing serious. All you have to do is pay us.'
3 a4 n( B8 C- d, R, N! t. D$ `' o; S'PAY you? And if I refuse?'
/ w2 a# R5 {6 }1 a0 \  K, I& v# y( R7 y'Well, in that case, sir, we'd have no option but to cut yours off.'
'And what would my wife do then?' the husband asks.
1 c3 x6 J* ]+ t% z, f! ~- g'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle.'

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