Alec sped out onto the street once more and handed Jaf his burrito, and took a bite from his. Jaf gave him a disgusted side glance as he opened his. Alec looked over and took another bite.
"How can you eat that?"
"Simple, open mouth, insert, chew, swallow, repeat as needed."
"In my country cows are very very sacred, we call them Pasu," Jaf said taking a bite from his.
"Yeah they're sacred here too, we call em big macs, whoppers, Bessie."
"I find it comforting that you find humor in my religion, we'll see who's laughing when you find yourself reincarnated as a bug. Mmm this is good. I don't think I've tasted anything like....gahhhhh!"
"What? What's the problem?"
"There is beef in this! Ohh no! Ohh no!" Jaf shouted dropping his burrito on the floor and putting his face in his hands. Alec looks down at the mess on the floor of the gremlin and back at Jaf.
"They did this on purpose! I'll sue! I swear it, I shall sue!" Jaf shrieked waving his arms.
"Ehh it's been done already," he shrugged. Jaf turned to him.
"Really?"
"Yeah," Alec said pulling into the music shop parking lot and turning off the engine. Jaf sat stunned in the car, nearing tears he got out and downheartedly unlocked the store.
"I am doomed, my karma is so very very righteously fucked now."
Alec shrugged and sat down behind the counter, "So what now? The karma police going to come and turn you in?" he chuckled.
"This is no laughing matter! The Pasu will take revenge upon me. They will eat out my eyes and my stomach!" Jaf said quickly walking into the back and grabbing his bible, and nearly tripped over the rug as he ran out into main store.
"I am in big big, hey where did you go?" Jaf said turning his head looking for Alec.
"I disappeared," came a voice.
"Really? You can do that?"
"No, I can't." Alec said standing up from behind the counter and plopping down a bundle of old records, and ducking down once again to retrieve the price gun. Jaf walked over to the counter and opened the Mahabharata. Flipping through the pages Jaf stops and begins to read. Alec clicks the price gun and prices the records.
"It says here that I can atone for my sin, by fasting and meditation, and that I must find a Pasu and beg it's forgiveness," Jaf says hopefully. Alec stops and looks at his friend.
"Pray forgiveness to a cow? You must be joking...."
"No, this is a very serious ritual that must be completed within the day of transgression..."
Alec looks about the store and shakes his head at Jaf, Jaf looks back with a quizzical expression.
"What?"
"That means closing the store, I don't think your father would approve."
"What? You closed the store to buy a new suit, and you won't close the store to save my soul?!"
"Hey," Alec said with a hurtful expression. "Fashion is good for the soul." reaching into his pocket and pulling out some keys, Alec flips the sign from opened to closed and walks back to the counter and grabs his vaccine guns.
"Well, you comin' or not?"
Jaf sighs and jogs after his friend. Alec runs out of the store and towards his gremlin, with Jaf in tow. "Quick, Robin to the karma mobile!" He shouts hopping in and turning the engine. Music fills the air as Jaf opens the door. Jaf gets in and the gremlin purrs as it races into the street.
"Here play this." he says handing Jaf a CD. Jaf opens it and looks in, he shakes his head and hands Alec a small packet.
"I found your pot stash. Manfred Mann? You put your stash in a Manfred Mann CD?" Jaf pops the CD in and hits play.
'When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna wanna dooze! Come on without, come on within!' the CD shouts.
"Appropriate, isn't it?"
The gremlin races along the street, abit above the speeding limit. Several cars beep their horns, and several fingers are raised in response. The gremlin turns off and enters the highway. Jaf turns to his friend.
"Where are we going?"
"To find the most sacred of all bovines," Alec says speeding up.
"Really? Goodness, I didn't know we had any. Where shall we find this most sacred of all Pasu?" "I don't know, the first dairy farm we see?"
The gremlin pulls on the first exit out of the city and the two men crane their necks to find the first dairy farm they see. Sign posts seem to fly by as does the time, and finally a small pasture filled with cows comes into view.
"Look! Look," points Jaf excitedly. Alec nods and pulls over. Jaf hops out and in a near sprint heads towards the fence.
"Careful, the fence is probably electric.."
"Should we ask the farmer's permission?"
"How long will this take, Jaf?"
"Just a few minutes."
"Well then just go ahead and do what you have to. Can you imagine us asking the farmer if you can pray to one of his cows?" Alec chuckles. "Excuse me sir, you don't know us, but my Hindu friend here has transgressed and eaten bit of beef. Could he possibly pray for forgiveness to one of your cattle so he can save himself from the ocular, digestive devouring bovine that will surely stalk him?"
"When you put it that way," Jaf says hoping over the fence. Jaf looks around a bit and finally finds the Pasu of his choice and kneels in front of it. He begins to pray, and kow-tow before it.
Alec pulls some rolling paper out of his pocket and rolls himself a joint. Lighting it, he turns back to his friend and notices an older man walking towards them, shotgun in hand. Alec quickly hops over the fence.
"Jaf!"
"Do not stop me, my friend I believe the Pasu is going to forgive-" Jaf says as he hears the click of a shotgun behind him. Slowly he stands arms raised, and turns to find a very upset old man in dirty overalls. "What the hell are you doing!?" The farmer asks, not moving the shotgun.
"I am praying for forgiveness to your Pasu here."
Alec reaches the two, and gets in front of his friend. "My friend here isn't going to hurt any of your cattle here, believe me." The farmer looks Alec over with a disgusted look.
"Who the hell are you supposed to be, a pirate?"
Alec smiles, "You like it?"
"I want you two off my property now! Before I fill your asses with salt rock!"
"But-" Jaf begins trying to explain.
"Now!" he says lifting the gun. Jaf nods and the two head back to the gremlin.
Once inside and away from the farm Jaf takes a hit from Alec's joint and hands it back. "What am I to do?"
"We'll go back there tonight. That Pasu and you seemed to really hit it off."
"You think?"
"You bet, she was looking at you all cow eyed and everything."

Later that night....
"Look, someone is here," Jaf says pointing to a pickup parked near the fence. The gremlin pulls up behind it and Alec turns of the engine. The two get out and jump the fence.
"Perhaps they are praying to your Pasu."
Jaf gives Alec a sideward glance and shakes his head. The two continue to walk scanning the herd for Jaf's newfound friend. Jaf motions towards the left.
"Look, what are they doing?"
Alec looks over to see two teenagers about to push over one of the sleeping cows. He leans in.
"They are pushing over the cow, it's called cow tipping."
"Goodness, doesn't it hurt the Pasu?"
"Yes, it could kill it."
"Gahh!" Jaf says as he runs towards the two pushers. They stops and turn drunkenly to see a crazed man in a turban running and screaming at them.
"Jesus!" one of them shouts and they starts running towards their pickup. Alec runs alongside of them and pulls out his vaccine guns. He reaches one of them and puts the gun on the back of his neck. Squeezing the trigger, he reaches the other and does the same with his left hand.
The two teenagers shout in surprise and their running begins to slow as the hallucinogenic takes effect.
Alec calmly walks over to them, as he unloads the needles from the guns. Looking at the two, he holsters the guns, and pulls out a joint. Lighting up, he concentrates on the two. The two begin to crawl around on their hands and knees mooing. Jaf joins Alec and looks at the two teenagers.
"What is wrong with them?" he asks.
"I gave them a mild hallucinogenic. They are now having a very Pasu experience."
Jaf chuckles, and turns to Alec, "It is done, and I am forgiven. Shall we go?"
"First things first, shall we?" Alec says gesturing to the two. Jaf nods in understanding and pushes one of the teenagers over, as does Alec.

Back at Alec's pad....
Alec closes the door and flicks on the lights. He unholsters his vaccine guns and his glocks and places them on the table. Walking into kitchen he pours himself a glass of soma and heads into the bedroom.
"I thought you'd be gone by now," he says to the woman sitting in the chair by the bed. She gets up and kisses him smiling.
"Nahh I thought I'd stick around one more night, my husband won't be back until tomorrow night anyway." She steps back and looks him over.
"You look like a pirate."
"So I've heard," he says laying his jacket across the chair. He picks up her up and kisses her.
"Mmmm, I mean it. You look like a pirate." Alec smiles and nearly tosses her onto the bed.
"Well then, prepare to be boarded."