{"id":753,"date":"2007-05-16T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2007-05-16T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/05\/16\/height-of-communication-gap\/"},"modified":"2007-05-16T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2007-05-16T08:28:28","slug":"height-of-communication-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/05\/16\/height-of-communication-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Height of communication gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ack :- Parth Barot<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mr.Verma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck: &#8220;I have great news: <em><strong>I&#8217;m a month overdue.<\/strong><\/em> I think we&#8217;re going to have a baby. The doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we  can&#8217;t tell anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The next day, Mrs.Verma receives a telephone call from AEC (Ahmedabad Electric Company) <strong>because the electricity bill has not been paid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Am I speaking to Mrs.Verma ?<br \/>\nYes&#8230;&#8230; speaking<br \/>\nAEC guy, You&#8217;re a month overdue, you know!<br \/>\nHow do YOU know? stammers the young woman.<br \/>\nWell, ma&#8217;am, it&#8217;s in our files! says the AEC guy<br \/>\nWhat are you saying? It&#8217;s in your files &#8230;&#8230; HOW ?????<br \/>\nYes &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; We have a system of finding out who&#8217;s overdue<br \/>\nGOD !!!!!!&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; this is too much&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.<br \/>\nMadam, I am sorry&#8230;&#8230; I am following orders&#8230;. I have to inform you are overdue<br \/>\nI know that &#8230;&#8230; let me talk to my husband about this tonight. &#8230;&#8230;.he will speak to your company tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>That night, she tells her husband about the visit, and he, <strong>mad as a bull,<\/strong> rushes to AEC office the next day morning.<br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s going on? You have it on file that my wife is a month overdue?<br \/>\nWhat business is that of yours?&#8221; the husband shouts.<br \/>\nJust calm down,&#8221; says the lady at the reception at AEC, &#8220;it&#8217;s nothing serious. <strong>All you have to do is pay us.<\/strong><br \/>\nPAY you? and if I refuse?<br \/>\nWell, in that case, sir, we&#8217;d have no option <em><strong>but to cut yours off<\/strong><\/em>.<br \/>\nAnd what would my wife do then?&#8221; the husband asks.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know. <em><strong>I guess she&#8217;d have to use a candle<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ack :- Parth Barot Mr.Verma comes home one night, and his wife throws her arms around his neck: &#8220;I have great news: I&#8217;m a month overdue. I think we&#8217;re going to have a baby. The doctor gave me a test today, but until we find out for sure, we can&#8217;t tell anybody.&#8221; The next day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[166,4],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forwards","tag-forwards","tag-fun","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}