Dandy Ranzer

[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.

[Pax Libertas @fierceasymmetry]

@VT5210 "Why aren't the people in the continent sized country with thousands of better places they can freely move to erupting in rebellion like the people in the island country the size of Indiana?"

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

We found another surreal place on our way. I know some people will say I’m too positive about everything I see, but this place was crazy. They had a shooting range in the store.

[Akira @Akir_a997]

I didn’t realize how good my parents raised me until I got around other people

[𝗙𝗜𝗔𝗚𝗢 🇩🇪 @fiago7]

Macy’s in Chicago. To be honest with you I only went in there because I desperately had to pee during my 4h walk but wow that’s giant flag 😂🇺🇸

I respect how proud Americans are of their country, unimaginable back home in Germany.

[PancreasNoWork @PancreasNo]

SOMETHING’S GETTING IN THE WAY

[Dandy Ranzer @DandyRanzer]

@FreddyLA7 Well he’s certainly not wrong

[George Alexopoulos @GPrime85]

@TMZ Yeah I'm no lawyer but I think it was the murder part that was the problem

[Rep. Mike Collins @RepMikeCollins]

Europeans have discovered the greatest state in the nation.

Welcome to Georgia!

[Tennessee Freedom @TNFreedom21]

Everyone. We have another World Cup visitor to follow! She’s discovered ranch.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Somewhere in Tennessee

[Louis @HoopsTalk13]

Freddy is single handedly saving America’s PR image worldwide lol

[Louis vil LeGun @LouisvilleGun]

where's the meme about the US getting paranoid about enemy planes so we build a new generation that absolutely dominates the threat (and then it turns out the threat was a total fabrication)