Matt Smith

Your average 31 year old

[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.

[Patrick Mahomes II @PatrickMahomes]

Proud of them boys! Big 12 Champs! Congrats! @TexasTechFB

Job not done!!!

#WreckEm

[ESPN @espn]

THE RED RAIDERS DOMINATE THE COUGARS IN THE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP 😤

Texas Tech claims its first Big 12 championship in program history 🏆

[Matt Smith @mattsmith955]

@Chilis Thankful for you ✊

[Robert Behrens @rcb05]

They’ll always have Sam Houston.

[Kyle Umlang @kyleumlang]

You can’t make this stuff up. Horns down during Texas’ bye week 😆

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Arch Manning is feeling himself after scoring vs. winless Sam Houston

[El Jefe @Jeff_Brunson]

There are more Texas Tech students at Chimy’s right now

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

This is not the flex you think it is

[Matt Smith @mattsmith955]

It’s Sam Houston State University

[Texas Football @TexasFootball]

We told y'all @archmanning got swagger 😏

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Try seeing if your local European can comprehend this. They can’t.

[Buffalo Wild Wings @BWWings]

you’re not sad, you just need fried pickles

[AriZona Iced Tea @DrinkAriZona]

I'm not gonna waste millions of dollars on a commercial

[Bleacher Report @BleacherReport]

JOEY CHESTNUT EATS 83 HOT DOGS IN 10 MINUTES TO SHATTER HIS PREVIOUS WORLD RECORD 🌭🐐

He defeated his longtime rival Takeru Kobayashi

[Matt Smith @mattsmith955]

@TravisLofley @kirbyhocutt He’s done a lot of great things for TTU

[Matt Smith @mattsmith955]

…They were not ready

[Texas Tech Football @TexasTechFB]

Boys are ready.

[Buffalo Wild Wings @BWWings]

RETWEET IF YOU WANT FREE WINGS

[Fat Kid Deals @FatKidDeals]

GIVEAWAY TIME!

We are giving away an @Xbox X! (retail $499.99!)

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Ends:
1/14/22 11:59 PM PT

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