>> Mr. Silva comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms
>> around
>> his neck: She said " 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. Silva receives a telephone call from the Ceylon
>> Electricity Board
>> because the electricity bill has not been paid.
>>
>> 'Am I speaking to Mrs. Silva ?' ,
>>
>> 'Yes, speaking'
>>
>> CEB guy: ' You're a month overdue, you know!
>>
>> ' How do YOU know ? ' stammers Mrs Silva.
>>
>> 'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the CEB guy .
>>
>> 'What are you saying? It's in your files .........'HOW?????'
>>
>> 'Yes ............ We have a system to find out who's overdue'
>>
>> 'GOD!!!!!!......... This is too much..........'
>>
>> 'Madam, I am sorry.....I am following orders, I have to inform you
>> that you are overdue!'
>>
>> 'I know that......let me talk to my Husband about it tonight. He will
>> speak to your Company tomorrow '
>>
>> That night, she tells her husband about the call, and he, mad as a
>> bull, (as usual, you guess!) rushes to CEB office the next day.
>>
>> 'What's going on? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue?
>> What business is that of yours?' shouts.
>>
>> 'Just calm down,' says the lady at the reception at CEB, '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, alarmed !!!!!!!!!
>> 'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a Candle !!!!
>> around
>> his neck: She said " 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. Silva receives a telephone call from the Ceylon
>> Electricity Board
>> because the electricity bill has not been paid.
>>
>> 'Am I speaking to Mrs. Silva ?' ,
>>
>> 'Yes, speaking'
>>
>> CEB guy: ' You're a month overdue, you know!
>>
>> ' How do YOU know ? ' stammers Mrs Silva.
>>
>> 'Well, ma'am, it's in our files!' says the CEB guy .
>>
>> 'What are you saying? It's in your files .........'HOW?????'
>>
>> 'Yes ............ We have a system to find out who's overdue'
>>
>> 'GOD!!!!!!......... This is too much..........'
>>
>> 'Madam, I am sorry.....I am following orders, I have to inform you
>> that you are overdue!'
>>
>> 'I know that......let me talk to my Husband about it tonight. He will
>> speak to your Company tomorrow '
>>
>> That night, she tells her husband about the call, and he, mad as a
>> bull, (as usual, you guess!) rushes to CEB office the next day.
>>
>> 'What's going on? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue?
>> What business is that of yours?' shouts.
>>
>> 'Just calm down,' says the lady at the reception at CEB, '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, alarmed !!!!!!!!!
>> 'I don't know. I guess she'd have to use a Candle !!!!
