taterthot

peace, love, and positivity // environmental and social work // DJ based in Seattle

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

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@svddenkait I’ve been saying this to people and they’re like ummm good for you??

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@brittlekaizez Best festival in North America hands downnnn

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#NewProfilePic o whateva

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@thaijesusmusic We all know at least one.. 😅 ever worse if he’s responsible for blowing the speakers 😬

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@LittlepSmith He’s probably pissed about not getting the halftime SB show in New Orleans…

[John Summit @johnsummit]

i feel bad recommending friends to go to places like ibiza and then they tell me they spent hundreds just to get stuffed like sardines :/ i get clubs need to make money but this is a legit problem

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@BeatboxBevs @PortolaFestival @LittlepSmith i will be flying out there next week if i win

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@saralandrydj Are you playing any shows in Ibiza??

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@shrebb Check dm

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@awonderland I shall explain no further #ITYSL

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@aeon_toad Saw him at Shambhala at Ganja’s set so at least we know he’s out here living his best life

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@youasidepiece @HARDFEST So just a VIP

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@jerrytapia_ If any of them just played at Shambhala you would cure my post-festival depression instantly (and give my my first artist pash)

[James Rehwald @JamesRehwald]

Voting in the United States

[its that kev @acanticleforkev]

folks they’re telling me, more and more every day, to cast it into the fire, to destroy the ring. i don’t think we’re gonna do that folks, don’t you agree? more and more people are telling me that it’s mine, it’s my own, and quite frankly that it’s my precious.

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@DeeperPurpose92 @LittlepSmith u know we’d tear EDC upppp

[Deeper Purpose @DeeperPurpose92]

Giving away 2 weekend EDC vegas passes. Tag a friend you want to bring with you and retweet this. Picking winners tomorrow ✌🏼

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@DillonNathaniel I neeeeed this

[dn. @dillonnathaniel]

Giving away this edit before it drops. All you gotta do is repost, comment, and send me a DM with your email 🩸😈