ManicPixie

Feral Princess

[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.

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

Maybe the foreigners have it right. Maybe the eagle and the flyover and the canyon and the kindness of a stranger with car keys really are worth crossing an ocean to see. Maybe, watching them fall in love with the place we take for granted, we could fall in love with it again ourselves and decide to be a little more charitable to the neighbor God told us to love, even when we cannot stand how he votes.

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@h3nd00 Make your way down to Newport!!!

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@elsathora Sit on the bank of the Potomac River and watch the fireworks in DC

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@fiago7 Drive east from New York - hit Mystic Connecticut, Newport Rhode Island and Cape Cod Massachusetts

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@PoliticalWarri2 @Toots744192 @DerrickEvans4WV @Linda_McMahon Wrong

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@Toots744192 @PoliticalWarri2 @DerrickEvans4WV @Linda_McMahon He was asked 15 times

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@PoliticalWarri2 @DerrickEvans4WV @Linda_McMahon Had Karmeli left ANYTIME during the 15 times he was asked to leave then he wouldn’t be in prison

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@Cal_III Where did they ship them?

[Mike Morrison @MDMorrison82]

In the dead of night the Scots arrived at the Airbnb across the street. Decked out and playing the pipes at 6:30 am. So it begins…

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@MDMorrison82 LOVE THIS!!!

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@shaunvlog_ Yes!

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@shaunvlog_ Welcome!!

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@isaacrrr7 Where are his clothes?
No shoes
No shirt
No service

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@army1325air I have always said this!

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@MJTruthUltra They probably asked him to leave 15 times

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@GuntherEagleman Heretic

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@mattvanswol Good!!

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@realBebojo @japan_nobunaga Wow

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@glokstar @jiggyjayy2 OMG