How to Eat Watermelon

Here are the beef and cheddar melts. Here are the chips I bought on sale for a fun summer treat (simple pleasures). Here is the watermelon cut into neat wedges and placed on a serving platter.

Where is the family?
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As if by silent agreement, they all picked up their nice, neat watermelon slices and rose to eat them over the trashcan. Why, oh, why?

It's one of life's mysteries.