Height of Misunderstanding

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Mr. Sharma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck:
5 W$ ?. y& p8 n: F6 G# ]0 f* i'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 x" C& O3 c4 O) v" K$ X' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
'Yes... speaking'
Reliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
+ J, u8 ^+ y" k) v9 Z$ @'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
+ J6 ^: @8 i  z6 K'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 '
' GOD!!!!!!... ....... This is too much........ ..'
'Madam, I am sorry... I am following orders.... I have to inform you are overdue'
5 Y2 `: L3 E' J; ~" C1 v$ z'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?
8 h1 ^. B6 G  NWhat business is that of yours?' the husband shouts.
, W; l7 \9 [$ {; q2 ]8 W  O'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.'
'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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