@MissyE2024 Well the American dinners require much longer to process since they are heavier, we gotta eat by 7 tops so we can digest enough before going to bed at 10 pm. Italians have an olive and a slice of salami for dinner at 9 and in bed by 9:30 no problem
@MissyE2024 Not only can we smell it my lil Brit boy we CRAVE that smell to the point we've scientifically reduce the ESSENCE of rain and made it into candles and other fragrances so we can make our nice dry homes smells like the outside rain
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.
@Tundephilps@tunechistark Yujiro knows an ancient martial arts technique that actually counters gamma radiation AND neutralizes devil fruit powers so he wins