Height of Misunderstanding

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Mr. Sharma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck:
0 X+ ?) n, p9 c' a9 w4 ]0 @  l4 P'I have great news: I'm a month overdue. I think we're going to have a baby!
8 y, `1 u' O2 p0 @4 F6 NThe 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.
' Am I speaking to Mrs. Sharma? '
% M: {* X8 I: y0 j. M5 a& z' ]# I1 m'Yes... speaking'
Reliance guy, 'You're a month overdue, you know!'
+ L; f* v! b" @0 u1 O+ ?'How do YOU know?' stammers the young woman.
  I! j) p) ^, m; N6 s6 m'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the Reliance guy.
" ]% R  D0 f$ W( }1 M/ j'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'
& {1 t2 o. I) x  ^'I know that ... let me talk to my husband about this tonight. .... He will speak to your company tomorrow '
9 `0 C' c/ O$ }$ K. pThat 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?
/ x0 z$ {# U1 U# E2 g  TWhat business is that of yours?' the husband shouts.
7 a. o8 N9 H4 N'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?'
' q0 j, c; @- u5 @! g% x'Well, in that case, sir, we'd have no option but to cut yours off.'
5 t# a+ w0 ^: G. @' x' _'And what would my wife do then?' the husband asks.
3 n7 A' E8 e6 k' @9 H'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a candle.'

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