Height of Misunderstanding

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Mr. Sharma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck:
1 D  D( M- `0 Y# {7 F'I have great news: I'm a month overdue. I think we're going to have a baby!
The doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can't tell anybody.'
The next day, Mrs. Sharma receives a telephone call from Reliance Energy because the electricity bill has not been paid.
' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
* E, d3 v! V- X# }# A& n3 c6 ]'Yes... speaking'
4 k. I- `5 ]6 I4 K$ W/ yReliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
- H+ T( ~8 k5 e0 F; s5 ['How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the Reliance guy.
4 k, W# h) p8 h+ @0 K7 q. t'What are you saying? It's in your files ...HOW?????'
9 \4 a% o5 L! s& [' b/ j' F! b& j, F' Yes ............ . We have a system of finding out who's overdue '
& I, m1 C/ G: @5 L$ `6 P& w0 \' GOD!!!!!!... ....... This is too much........ ..'
'Madam, I am sorry... I am following orders.... I have to inform you are overdue'
2 D& b. S+ ?& _* r8 p8 z8 C8 M'I know that ... let me talk to my husband about this tonight. .... He will speak to your company tomorrow '
/ l5 \4 A4 S# Q9 @1 l: W, sThat 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.
5 q+ X) D8 f- ['Just calm down,' says the lady at the reception at Reliance, 'it's nothing serious. All you have to do is pay us.'
'PAY you? And if I refuse?'
'Well, in that case, sir, we'd have no option but to cut yours off.'
+ a+ `/ C0 T! J% M: B'And what would my wife do then?' the husband asks.
'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle.'

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