> Mr.Verma 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.Verma receives a telephone call 
> from AEC (Ahmedabad
> Electric Company) because the electricity bill has
> not been paid.
>
> "Am I speaking to Mrs.Verma?"
> "Yes…… speaking"
> AEC 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 AEC 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 AEC 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
> AEC, "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."