Sam.L.Garrison

[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.

[Sam.L.Garrison @Samuel_Garrison]

@Kentuckyweather @JimWKYT

Big fan of how you handle things during these alert days. Being from Oklahoma it is nice to see you’ll work together and explain what you all are looking at/for. While also giving equal time to all those who are impacted.

Thanks for what you do!

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@JimWKYT @Kentuckyweather is there any chance that the area goes up in risk to moderate for Wednesday?

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@RJ_Young Yes

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I cast my Heisman ballot for #KylerMurray! Click the player you think deserves the Heisman House vote. (📍@NissanUSA)

[Clay Stoldt @claystoldt]

Now this is remarkable... https://t.co/Ob5E4Vg4nT

[Jeff @jeffyc22]

Unofficially, 7/15 guys on the Spurs roster can't dunk: Mills, Parker, Manu, Diaw, Duncan, Andre Miller, Bonner. Not sure about David West.

[Andrew Malcolm @AHMalcolm]

For every retweet this gets, Pedigree will donate one bowl of dog food to dogs in need! 😊 #tweetforbowls http://t.co/z4rmc2HsGT

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#RIPStuartScott #StuSalute

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@Cottsy149 Halpy Birthday!

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

HISTORY! Samaje Perine breaks Melvin Gordon's one week old NCAA record with 427 Rush yds. He's just a freshman!

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For anyone who hasn't read the books let the game of clue begin.#GoT

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Fort Sumter

[Jeff @jeffyc22]

True Detective>>>>>Breaking Bad. And it's not close IMHO.

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@nikkimichelle11 Congrats!

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ACC's

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Safe travels and best of luck to @WichitaSt_TFXC at the MVC Indoor Championship, bring back some hardware!
#fearthewheat #competeangry

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Can't get away from track meets.