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!
2 `( F3 w/ ~) e5 DThe 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.
  a7 o4 y+ k, U0 }0 E' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
3 z$ V  B7 G. L+ a: _0 A. W'Yes... speaking'
Reliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
" z8 z( M. G% Y2 X'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the Reliance guy.
6 x' T: X" C$ y, E4 g. u2 k'What are you saying? It's in your files ...HOW?????'
4 v7 D1 x7 K3 i) O0 x- i6 A' Yes ............ . We have a system of finding out who's overdue '
' GOD!!!!!!... ....... This is too much........ ..'
5 |  L; W3 F4 ?8 X'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 '
5 i; X1 y6 x1 F. Z9 j6 q* wThat 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.
% [- ~2 A! b, R( B/ ^'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.'
* f* \/ }$ P2 J% Q/ s'And what would my wife do then?' the husband asks.
' [# E8 M* F& W9 X'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle.'

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