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.
61% blow-by rate in the Finals on 18 drives Wemby defended. Not that this is a useful stat or stat we hear much about anymore.
But we all remember how much it was talked about with Luka vs Boston in the Finals which was 58% btw...
No matter how much I might’ve soured on the whole twitter experience there’s just nowhere else in the world where you are going to see a collection of words like this 😭
THIS MF A 🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆🦆
bro said “you can actually fight” 😭😭
so he’s telling everyone he wants to fight someone who he feels can’t fight 😂 that’s what we call DUCKING ..
@365Aggie Dude was such a big part of A&M’s success the last 2 years. What % do you think he was at against Miami if he’s saying he’s 90-95% healthy 2 months later?