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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.

[BD @bddureau]

Man, I love raffles. Need to know who came up with these.

[BD @bddureau]

… or die tryin

[Texas Longhorns @TexasLonghorns]

all this for us???? 🤘😍

#HookEm

[Barstool SEC @SECBarstool]

Truly amazing how no matter what, A&M somehow winds up little brother to Texas again.

[BD @bddureau]

What the hell *in Slovenian

[Jim Schlossnagle @CoachSchloss]

🤘 @CoachSark

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

A&M’s problem is that they think they’re the same caliber of program as Texas. They really thought they were gonna win in the trenches on a HB dive at the goal line.

[Jdin @VerdeLonghorn]

Georgia players trying their hardest to ignore the fact that there is a giant racing event going on 30 minutes from the stadium this weekend

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

What a statement. What a career. Legend.

[BD @bddureau]

@thedailytexan @UTAustin @JCHartzell That ain’t very SEC

[BD @bddureau]

The cowboys lost my life is over

[BD @bddureau]

Just wait till bears figure out about fishing rods

[BD @bddureau]

Mad respect for Dan Ige

[BD @bddureau]

I survived the podcast epidemic

[BD @bddureau]

@jaamadric You looked like a kid on Christmas when you lit it up

[BD @bddureau]

How tf I run out of beans

[BD @bddureau]

And home was the answer

[BD @bddureau]

I’m convinced that no amount of schooling will teach me the difference between “effect” and “affect.” Make it make sense