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!
/ X+ x  z( E4 P$ T6 O/ t! W: |The doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can't tell anybody.'
6 @- A. _; P: [- z& b% C( _' }The next day, Mrs. Sharma receives a telephone call from Reliance Energy because the electricity bill has not been paid.
! t5 w1 a5 U  K3 e6 C" T' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
'Yes... speaking'
Reliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
" ]8 V0 f% }0 N, R'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the Reliance guy.
'What are you saying? It's in your files ...HOW?????'
! i) }1 H! C/ S, Q! ]0 e) w' Yes ............ . We have a system of finding out who's overdue '
' GOD!!!!!!... ....... This is too much........ ..'
'Madam, I am sorry... I am following orders.... I have to inform you are overdue'
: P6 z6 m6 Z8 C- T+ ^'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?
6 H9 D2 z' ^, R2 \' ~: A1 hWhat business is that of yours?' the husband shouts.
5 |3 c: j3 f' p) o# N  z'Just calm down,' says the lady at the reception at Reliance, 'it's nothing serious. All you have to do is pay us.'
6 c, J: h# A, v( N" t'PAY you? And if I refuse?'
'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.
'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle.'

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