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! 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 Electric Company because the electricity bill has not been paid. ” Am I speaking to Mrs.Sharma ? “ “Yes…… speaking” guy, “You’re a month overdue, you know!”
“How do YOU know?” stammers the young woman.
“Well, ma’am, it’s in our files!” says the 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”
“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 visit, and he, mad as a bull, rushes to Electric Company’s 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.
“Just calm down,” says the lady at the reception at Elecric Company , “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.”