Trying to keep things peaceful at home and as a result keep Ringo from staying with Francine, Jake takes Ringo out to Lackwood Park on the shore of Lake Eerie before Jake's folks get home from work. Jake and Ringo sit on a bench and watch lake gulls swoop over the shoreline. They've basically run out of things to say to one another yesterday, but Jake keeps trying, "So, what do you think of Mark Cain's new gimmick?"
"The militant vegetarian thing?"
"Yeah."
"It's a stupid gimmick, but the audience being mostly meat eaters should hate him more because of it."
"It seems like a goofy thing to give someone heat. I mean who cares what someone else eats?"
"Ah, wrestlers rib each other about everything. A couple guys are vegetarians but they get a lot of grief. Remember when the bags of spinach had bacteria in them and got withdrawn from the market a few years back?"
"Vaguely."
"Well, one of the guys dug a bunch out of the dumpster behind a supermarket and filled up a vegetarian wrestler's rental car with them as a rib. He also left a sign that said, "Honest, those E. coli bags were blown out of proportion. I'm good. I'm delicious. Eat me!"
"Are you a vegetarian? I hope not. I just realized that my parents have been serving a lot of meat. Maybe you've been too polite to say anything."
"Ah, what they've been serving is fine. I'm sort of a freegan. If it's free, I'll eat it. Animals eat other animals so I don't see what all the moral fuss is about, but the all veggie crunchers have some good ecological points on their side. Did you know that Killer Kowalski was a vegetarian?"
"Really?"
"Yeah. So any wrestler who thinks someone isn't tough because he or she doesn't eat meat ought to think twice."
"I don't know. The Cannibals are pretty scary because they try to eat their opponents. What can a vegetarian wrestler say, 'I'm going to open you up like a can of beans!'?"
"Speaking of beans, I'm hungry. Do you want to go dumpster diving?"
"Uh, not really. Mom probably will have dinner ready soon anyway."
"Say, Jake, do you ever get the sense that you've kind of wasted your life?"
"Your life isn't that bad, man. Just because you're wrestling in the indies now, doesn't mean that you won't get back to the big time eventually."
"Thanks, dude, but I was talking about you."
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