Kyle Stuart

[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.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

DUDE LMAO THIS IS A GAS STATION😭😭😭

[Houston Astros @astros]

A leader, a champion, an H-Town legend.

Welcome back, Breggy.

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

Ok I probably could have phrased this a little better

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

this belongs in the crisis management hall of fame

[Houston Astros @astros]

The battle for the Silver Boot returns!

Thanks to the @TexasLottery, you and three friends have a chance to win an Astros MVP experience on Saturday, July 12! RT to win! #LUCKHAPPENS

[Mike @db9mike]

If I was president I’d close our national deficit by selling advertising packages to big tobacco companies.

Marlboro stealth bomber, the U.S.S NEWPORT, etc.

[pikmin's model @ZaaackKoootzer]

RIP to both performers in the funniest joke in tv history

[Anthony👾🛸 @Tohneee]

LMAO they did the thing
#Invincible

[Michael S. Kim @Mike_kim714]

Story thx to Aaron Flener:

A player was playing the 4th hole at the Farmers, and hit it left into the hazard. On the next hole (player in bathroom), his caddie pulls out his phone and shows the rest of the group a map of the US, and says “He had the ENTIRE UNITED STATES to the right and my guy hits it into the Pacific Ocean.” 😂 😂

[kat pressly @KatPressly]

This has been the most difficult decision we have made as a family. It has been an incredible ride. THANK YOU HOUSTON. You have been, and always will be. home. You believed in us and helped us make our dreams come true. From the first pitch to the final out, every moment here has

[Seattle Mariners @Mariners]

Ichiro Suzuki. Hall of Famer.

アメリカ野球殿堂表彰者、鈴木一朗。

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

“It was an accident!! He’s autistic!!”

[katie @katefeetie]

as far as i'm concerned, there are 4 movie ratings:
good, liked it
good, didn't like it
bad, didn't like it
bad, liked it

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

no atou, by Henry Taylor, 2023

[Ben Davis @BenTheBaneDavis]

I’m deleting UFC 5 bro 😭