The man seated himself. "Something terrible has happened," he said. "A horrible mistake has been made."
"I'm sorry to hear that. You look as if you were in an accident."
"I was. I've been in the ... hospital ... for nearly two months. But to come to the point, Mr. Coxe. I've come about the refrigerator you recently purchased. It was a special refrigerator that was erroneously shipped out of the plant as a second. When I didn't come in, it got shipped out and sold."
"Good refrigerator," Coxe said.
"Perhaps you've noticed ... ah ... something unusual about it?"
"It runs okay. For a while there were a bunch of packages of fish eggs in it."
"Fish eggs!" the little man cried in horror. After he had recovered sufficiently, he asked, "You do, of course you do, I'm sure you still have all the ... little packages?"
"Oh, no," said Coxe.
"NO? Oh, my God. What did you do with them, Mr. Coxe?"
"Ate them."