"Yes...." The fridge stated quite uncertainly, "Perhaps you're right" and on that despondent and slightly depressed note the fridge shut its door, much to the chagrin of the angry contents of the fridge.

I sat back in the seat amazed."Whoa!", I said to the all too happy and non-fazed Mergatroyd, "That was pretty trippy!"

"Yeah it was cool hey? But if you think that was good you see what is gonna happen next?"

In a sudden, but unfortunately temporary flash of lucidity, it occured to me Mergatroyd was not only handing this well but had probably consumed "the odd apricot" in his life and he would know.

Then it happened............