Joe comes home from work and opens his mailbox. In his mailbox, he finds a yellow bottle of soap—soap for washing dishes.
The dish soap is a free sample from a soap company. The company wants people to use the free soap and they hope that next time the customers will buy it. Millions of people get the soap. It is new and it has the smell of lemons in it. It has a picture of two lemons on the label.
“Good!” Joe thinks. “A free sample of lemon juice! I am going to have a salad for dinner. This lemon juice will taste good on my salad.” Joe puts the soap on the salad and eats it. After, Joe feels sick. How can I write in past tense?