Height of Misunderstanding

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Mr. Sharma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck:
( }6 U) g3 U) k4 c1 ]1 @" F'I have great news: I'm a month overdue. I think we're going to have a baby!
3 a4 G  e3 D" d* kThe doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can't tell anybody.'
3 p" j% A0 _2 j/ M, q! Z* U- IThe 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? '
7 L. H8 K% q8 Q; d: P  J'Yes... speaking'
" M# |. Q" H7 m5 Z" fReliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
+ m4 j. L$ H  _  }# t2 Y'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 '
( h7 p& `; \( Y+ M6 e/ n' 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 '
  E2 B* X  {! q, G" e* [* TThat night, she tells her husband about the incident, and he, mad as a bull, rushes to Reliance office the next day morning.
  _# a, I' b& T, {* o# K'What's going on? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue?
& c( Q. P1 j8 l+ Y# U; |0 d) YWhat business is that of yours?' the husband shouts.
8 B  ]( B" ~. G- [4 a6 n+ d- x'Just calm down,' says the lady at the reception at Reliance, 'it's nothing serious. All you have to do is pay us.'
' d& L3 N4 V+ g0 E7 F5 x'PAY you? And if I refuse?'
2 |5 t! R* n. m9 f& f'Well, in that case, sir, we'd have no option but to cut yours off.'
0 R$ k, M% x+ v6 h/ ^' p'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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