Overdue

Husband comes home one night, and his wife
throws her arms around his neck: “Darling, I have
great news: I’m a month overdue. I think we’re
going to have a baby! Until the doctor confirms
the test result we can’t tell anybody.”
The next day, a guy from the electric company
rings the door-bell, because the couple hasn’t
paid their last bill:


“Are you Mrs. Smith? 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 man.


“What are you saying? It’s in your files?????”


“Absolutely.”


“Well, let me talk to my husband about this
tonight.”


That night, she tells her husband about the visit,
and he, mad as a bull, rushes to the electric
company’s office the first thing the next morning.


“What’s going on here? 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 clerk, “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!”