A person has taken to social media to share a hilarious incident he faced while having an interaction with his account manager over WhatsApp. He explained on Reddit how the accountant while conversing with him confused an English word with a Hindi swear word. The incident has gone viral sparking laughter among netizens.
According to the post, the accountant asked the Reddit user for a certain invoice as the one he had sent earlier was incorrect. Replying back the Reddit user asks "Sale invoice chahiye ya purchase invoice [Do you want sale invoice or purchase invoice?]." This is where the confusion crept in. The accountant immediately asked him not to use the word "sale" as he mistook it to be a Hindi swear word.
The Reddit user then explained him about the confusion and the man finally apologised.
Sharing a screenshot of his WhatsApp conversation, the man wrote "I was chatting with my account manager, he asked me for an invoice for GST verification. I couldn't stop myself from laughing after I realised that he mistook the English word “Sale” with the word “S***e” (which is considered an abusive word in Hindi), it was embarrassing."
Since being shared the post has garnered 3,000 upvotes and several comments.
"I first read it as saale ... Then after reading next 2 words I was like : sale hai ye," commented one user on the post.
"Reminds me of an invoice I had got sometime back. The vendor had mentioned "bubble raping" cost there," wrote another user.
"As a child I used to read sale as साले. My mother was very embarrassed when I would point at boards and hoardings of SALE and scream साले साले साले!, commented a third.
"Was having such a bad day today...this made me laugh," wrote a fourth.