wrrrronnnggggg number

There has been a revolution of sorts where telephone communication is concerned in India. Everyone has a cell phone today, there was a time when people used to pull out there cell phones while waiting at traffic signals and just pretend to talk…it was a big deal then. Anyway today the Dhoodwala, the Subziwala every one has it……people who have never used a electronic gadget… I was at a shop when this guy turns up with his cell .. ‘yeh theek kar do, jab phone aata hai yeh current maarta hai’(this thing gives a shock whenever I get a call)…..the guy at the shop fiddled with it for a few minutes and took Rs 50/- its done………he actually just switched off the vibrator.

However the home idiot..the landline.. is still the same, hasn’t changed its ways much. Sometimes its big pain, there was a time when we used to get so many calls that weren’t meant for us.. you come running all the way n just end up saying wrong number…….some point of time I just got tired of this and began take those calls and it became a source for fun……some of those conversations:

Caller: Hello..cold storage

Jack: yes tell me what do u want

Caller: I want 40 blocks of ice, I have taken them earlier too from u……how much does it cost?

Jack: arre u are our old customer we will charge u a very reasonable price ..u come tomorrow morning…

(don’t know what happened in the morning at the cold storage)

Caller: (lady) taxi stand

Jack: yes madam what can we do for u

Caller: we had asked for a taxi, but now we don’t need one…

Jack: no problem

(must have been a problem when the taxi turned up at the house)

Caller: (lady) Doctor saheb I am Swati Gupta

Jack: yes Swati ji tell me how are u

Caller: Doctor Saheb the surgery u had performed on my stomach ..it hurts

Jack: click

(I wanted to prescribe some medicine but then realized this is serious so I just hung up….wonder what happened when she spoke to her real doc..did she tell him that she spoke to him b4 too)

Caller: Cold storage

Jack: yes

Caller: what happened to my potato bags which had gone missing

Jack: Oh I have been waiting for your phone..we have traced your bags, u come here tomorrow

Caller: shall I bring a tractor trolley

Jack: now u cant take all those bags on your head ..bring the trolley

(I am sure they ended up in dishoom dishoom next day)

Caller: is Raju there

Jack: get lost

Caller: why are u being rude

Jack: now u will teach your father how to talk I am in-charge of the police station..where are u calling from let me send a cop

Caller: sorry saheb I did not know…I am really sorry

There have been numerous others too and its funny no one has ever turned back and said that u r not the one u r pretending to be. I really don’t understand how and why this problem but people dial up for all kinds of things and places, District Magistrate’s Office, Commissioner’s Office etc, some how these days its been a bit quite.