@rfenner51 Hey Rob, Similar thing happened to our safe at work, it had low battery in the key pad, there doesn’t happen to be a battery visible from the bottom side of the pad does there?
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.
Not even exaggerating in the slightest when I say that this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen…
A no-dip, mid-air 3 ball? Are you kidding me?
I’ve watching this 100x & I don’t plan on stopping any time soon. This is amazing.
@A7548528679660@elonmusk@stevenmarkryan There’s a reason we made the compromise with two separate congressional departments… do you think a state like Rhode Island deserves to carry the same amount of say as perhaps Texas? Texas is not only vastly more populated but vastly larger in land mass.