You arrive to home, careful to hide the lamp behind you just in case anyone were home. As you enter through the kitchen service door, there on the Fridge is a note, "Gone shopping, back by 5pm."
What great luck, you have the better part of the afternoon at home and nobody there to be a bother.
The first thought was to find some metal polish, it is usually kept in the cupboard under the kitchen sink. "Ah yes," you found the stuff, as had to make use of it when polishing the silverware given as a gift from grandma. The stuff is an oilly mess and since nobody else were at home, right then was as good as anytime to stand by the kitchen sink and polish your new treasure.
"Rub-dub-dub," you use a old washcloth soaked with the polish, and begin cleaning away the years of degradation built up on the outside of the lamp. After much rubbing the polish turns a brownish-gray color and the best way to get that off was to put it under the faucet and using hot water, brush the metal clean.
As you douse the lamp under the warm to hot water, something about the lamp, you look and the spout has blue smoke coming out. It was not a massive plume of blue smoke, but just a whisp of something blue. The dried polish was about the same hue of blue and you ignore the sight of it as by chance something to do with the washing off the dried polish.
Thinking to give some polish to the bottom of the old lamp, when you turn the lamp upside down, the inscription seemed to have a reddish glow. " THIS LAMP CAN MAKE ALL YOUR WISHES COME TRUE, " you reading the inscription as aloud maked the lettering glow red as if the lamp were somehow heating up to light.
"Gee whiz, but I wish this lamp can make all your/my wishes come true!" You said, and from within the lamp you hear, "What the devil is going on, my whole abode is turned upside down, and I got thrown out of hammock!"
You stand there with the lamp as upside down having heard a voice as if coming from inside your new found treasure. By all rights of good sesne you should have uprighted the lamp and looked inside. What you did was to confound the situation, and for some reason you began to violently shake the lamp as try to shake out who was inside.
"Hey there, whoa, stop that infernal shaking of the lamp, my home is in a shamble!" He said, as might be a male genie and if angered, he could come out and do terrible things to you. You uprighted the lamp but put your thumb over the spout's hole, waiting for what you might hear next.
All was quiet, no more voice talking, yelling, grumbling, so you let off your thumb from plugging the spout.
"Huh," you heard come from inside the lamp, "Done shaking me up like a butter churn, and a thumb..., did you give a look at what I put on your thumb?"
No you did not think to look at where your thumb had covered the spout of the lamp. You rolled your hand as palm up and there seemingly stuck on your thumb face is a small oval of gold dust.
"Is it gold?" You said alound asking the voice in the lamp.
"It could be if you treasure gold, or if you have no need of gold, then if could be a pill. I give very special pills to those who put my home in shambles. Eat it and see then what it feels like to have your lifestyle turned upside down!"