This angst ridden account of a PTCL subscriber's woes almost made me laugh out loud.
If a telephone becomes dead all of a sudden, then no amount of dialling 18 and pressing this or that numeral in response to the voice emanating from a cybernetic device is going to help. Even 080044544, if it gets connected by sheer good luck, cannot render the promised assistance. Nor can the subscribers’ centre (phone 2629910) restore life to the dead telephone. Ultimately, the area lineman, if he can be got hold of, can do the trick by sleight of hand for a little “honorarium”, provided it does not turn out to be dreaded cable fault, which is more deadly than snake-bite. Bitten by this cobra, my phone (4937240) is likely to remain dead, perhaps, as long as I remain alive.
Its got this very... surrealistic, somewhat fantastic prespective. The last line is sheer genius.
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DAWN