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!
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.
0 @6 w5 F: ]+ K/ r& m: R' P' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
' W) ?: F* ~' q6 e'Yes... speaking'
Reliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
( A: H! ?3 ]  R# x3 `'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
! H- `1 N  o9 d# U'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 '
. y% \" z( y* D) r  e' GOD!!!!!!... ....... This is too much........ ..'
'Madam, I am sorry... I am following orders.... I have to inform you are overdue'
'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?
0 a- P& S2 n% oWhat business is that of yours?' the husband shouts.
6 Q4 `6 E- ]0 \  H'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.'
0 b4 i' z% Y% `, g. k'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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