Ben Dalton

[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.

[HARMON @TheBeAManGuy]

IF YOU’RE LOST
DON’T USE GPS
OR ASK FOR DIRECTIONS.
JUST DRIVE AROUND FOREVER.

BE A MAN

[Retro Anime @retro_anime]

Black Lagoon (2006)

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

When you're a great dad and even better actor

[Cleveland Browns @Browns]

TEN Titans... oh

[Chris Broad @AbroadInJapan]

When you’re trying to take a photo of a geological wonder and Sharla keeps putting her hand in the bloody way.

Also 🥳💍!!!

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Why did the USA do this to its cities?

[OpTic Scump @scump]

THANKS FOR EVERYTHING

[Pelé @Pele]

A inspiração e o amor marcaram a jornada de Rei Pelé, que faleceu no dia de hoje.

Amor, amor e amor, para sempre.
.
Inspiration and love marked the journey of King Pelé, who peacefully passed away today.

Love, love and love, forever.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

reflections on a rice field

[Pokémon Meech @MeechFromPallet]

The 4 horseman 🐎 of the Pokémon apocalypse

[IcyVert @IcyVert]

OH MY GOD IT IS HERE.

IRANNNNN WHAT HAPPENDUHHHHHHH

[brandon* @brndxix]

0-0 JUST LIKE THE AMOUNT OF QUEENS WE BOTH HAVE 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

[Pokémon @Pokemon]

He's done it! Ash has become a World Champion! 🏆🎉

[𝐚-𝐚𝐫𝐨𝐧 @wydccalamity]

This video gets me every time 😭😭

[Joey Burrow @JoeyB]

Just two Ohio boys letting it fly #SoundisPower #TeamBose