This looks like a hardware store!

Probably!

…Maybe!

(No one should put them in charge of acquiring large appliances. Who did this.)

You go into the store! Inside is a kindly gentleman, standing next to an old-timey hot water boiler! It's just what your roommates asked you to pick up! 

The gentleman says "Well here's the boiler ya wanted! You've now been subjected to my high-pressure sales pitch."

He smiles sincerely. But also creepily.

Wow!!!!! How well-timed!

“That is what I wanted! You’re very good at your job!”

Two strong hardware store guys come and load the boiler into your friend's truck! They're each wearing a cute frog badge.

That's the shopping done for today! 

You notice, after the boiler is loaded, a piece of paper sticking out of the door...

Oooh.

Paper: snagged.

The Paper has the following helpful information:

Here's What You Should do if You're Taking a Bath and Suddenly You Wonder, "Am I Soup?" 
STEP ONE: Check tub to see what it's filled with. 
STEP TWO: If tub is filled with carrots, celery, onions, and vegetable stock, you are soup. 
STEP THREE: If tub is filled with just water, you are still soup, but it won't be as flavorful.

“…me soup.”

They should make some them soup when the boiler is all installed. That sounds nice.

Time to get in the truck and think about sitting in a bubbling cauldron. With some fresh herbs.

You make it back to your home! And your crazy and handy roommate installs the bubbling cauldron boiler!

It's now bathtime! What do u do?  

Bath!!!!

They start running the warm water, put the little hook in the eye to lock the door, and wriggle out of their clothes.

(Wow it’s chilly in here. Brrr.)

Now it’s time for a little bit of bath salt, and….

One turnip. Just for fun.

(hee hee)

Good. Now the bathtub is steamy and good. The water warms the spirits. 

It does!!

They sink into the steamy, warm water and sigh in contentment, soaking their cares away.

They were once the spirits of lightning given flesh, thundering across the forest. They died in blood and glory beneath skies more blue than any that can be seen today, they drank deep from life itself, and were satisfied completely. In their retirement they vegetated, haunting great trees that gushed mighty rivers of sap, baking in the sun of the Carboniferous era. Then later, they baked in the warm embrace of the earth, for 300 million years, pressed and warmed, until only carbon and spirit remained, and they forgot, and were transformed...

Then once more they were venerated to the heavens, awakened in fire and light, and found a new home in a belly of steel, making the same water they once drunk in life dance to their warmth. 

Then cold once again for 100 years. 

And now they find new warmth! 

A greeble appears! It's shyly peeking out from behind the hot water tap!

…

…

What!!!

“Hello!”

It comes closer to your bathtub, and extends a straw-like appendage into the bathwater. It seems to be drinking it. Also chirping quietly. It eyes you warily.

“I’m…soup.”

Additional greebles appear and feast. 

One of them slips and falls into the tub! It's struggling!

Seconds later it gives up its struggles, it will die here, surrounded by such bounty.

“Oh, no—”

They scoop the fuzzy little creature up and set it carefully back on the edge of the bath.