david arce

[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.

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@TDPresentsYT Gosh… HOW

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@EvilgeniusHK @nyknicks …

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@jaromjordan There’s no regulation. Faults on NCAA for letting them get paid, before not allowing them at all. They want money and got them more money plus players but now it’s coming around to them.

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@ShaunMcKnight Oh yeah! HEB gave my fiancée a free bag because it was her first time

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@Mitch_Harper @jaromjordan I kinda like the schedule on the back of the shirts, but the front is cool

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@Ryan_Mason23 @AdamSchefter I guess makes sense!

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@geeked_alan @NFLFantasy Tripping

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@consolerocks @AdamSchefter Well yes I agree, but at that point what is even worth signing a no trade clause lol? It’s just a bunch of BS everyone can do what they want

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

New England was one of AJ Brown's preferred destinations, in part because of Mike Vrabel. Brown played for Vrabel from 2019-2021 with the Titans, and the two have maintained a connection beyond football, according to Vrabel.

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@thedawgspodcast WHO ARE YOU

[NBA Latam @NBALatam]

👽 WEMVP 👽

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@rtmccombs @jaromjordan How do I get one of these

[Thomas Stevenson @RealTStevenson]

Ben Shapiro today on his podcast:

“There is no category of humans that are entirely good and honest…

…maybe the Mormons come close.”

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@KnicksMuse Fake fan

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@AdamSchefter PT in Jail is hilarious

[david arce @daviddarce2000]

@Lil_Eazy_Ana_42 You’re the goat don’t worry

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@mid_madness please @ me!