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[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.

[RobT @RobT42438482]

@FreddyLA7 When you are driving through Ennis, Texas, on I-45, just south of Dallas, make sure you are driving at the posted speed limit!

The Ennis police department are always looking for speeders to ticket.

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@FreddyLA7 @JJWatt I’m so glad you are enjoying your time.

While in Houston you must have lunch or dinner at Molina’s Cantina; go to the one on Westheimer. It’s the best TexMex food on the planet.

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🎥🍿 MAJOR LEAGUE: ASTROS🎥🍿

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@1Nicdar Absolutely justified

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@brianmctaggart March 30, LMJ.
7IP 4H 1R 1ER 1BB 9K

March 31, Brown.
6IP 1H 1R 1ER 2BB 8K

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@MS2PZ D

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@CaptMarkKelly Shut up

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@TheAthletic Based on her two performances so far I’d say more attention to why she’s there vs her lecturing her country would help.

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@Geniustechw LOL. Outstanding job.

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@analyst4sports_ I’m so glad we’ve seen the last of this worthless little twit.

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@janninereid1 Absolutely.

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@BR_CFB @diegopavia02 @VandyFootball So long douche bag.

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@akarlin @ICEgov Are you really that stupid?

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@BR_CFB @diegopavia02 lol!

He’s still a worthless pos.

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@VandyTracker He’s a worthless pos.

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@diegopavia02 lol!

Too late, loser. We all know what an ungrateful, entitled, worthless pos you are.

You’d best start practicing for your next job: “Do you want fries with that?”

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@MLB What kind of idiot lets this happen?

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@steveinman Instant justice.

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@KFILE STFU you worthless prick.