Maybe John has had enough to drink to loosen up his mind as much as the ever-present tension in his muscles, but it only occurs to him then that he probably should have added a caveat about before Pumpkin Hollow. Because...yeah.

Still, he smiles and shrugs. "I don't count showing up here, 'cause coming out of this ain't guaranteed. And, uh...the one time this situation applied to me? It was more a 'missing and presumed dead' situation."