Missed calls

At the barber’s shop there was this talk between my barber and a watchman customer. A man murdered his wife after seeing a few missed calls on her mobile. Missed calls meant affairs of the heart outside the marital framework. Fidelity to partner suspected.

Missed calls are made to check if the coast is clear.

But not all the missed calls are made by paramours, I thought in my head.

Here ,in this country people raise missed calls to indicate a desire to talk, leaving the option to the called party to follow it up by a call, if the latter so desired. This way they save talk-time. Our people are such great savers!

The barber had finished his job on me and went on to catch up on other news.