mooch

[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.

[Kevin “O” Sullivan @sullys_burner]

Me, hungover during a 1 on 1 with my boss

[Nick Watts 🇺🇸 @NickWatts]

Remember who you are white boy

[Richard Johnson @RichJohnsonNFL]

Dianna Russini has issued a statement:

“I did something this past weekend that I am deeply ashamed of. If I have hurt anyone out there, I can't tell you how much I say from the bottom of my heart I'm so very, very sorry. I pride myself and think of myself as a woman of faith, as there's a drive into deep left field by Castellanos and that'll be a home run. And so that'll make it a 4-0 ballgame. I don't know if I'm going to be putting on this headset again.”

[The Kevin Harlan Effect @KevHarlanEffect]

Mike Vrabel when his wife asks who he was just talking to on the phone (it was Dianna Russini)

[Adam Schefter @AdamSchefter]

Statement from JC Tretter, the newly elected executive director of the NFLPA:

[Sportsnet @Sportsnet]

Tage Thompson just wired off FIVE one-timers in a row 😭

[amanda ᓚᘏᗢ 🪻 #PZIM @goaliehug]

How the Big Z is about to hit

[Pardon My Take @PardonMyTake]

Dudes rock

[Ron “Pigpen” McKernan @hitposternutbag]

Happy birthday Jerry u woulda loved $1000 waders

[mooch @molejoem]

@ryanmcgorisk #cats

[Kyle Porter @KylePorterNS]

Poor Si Woo doesn't understand what he just saw.

[Trayveon “Hammer” Treadwell @BiggestBro_]

No the dark green ones. To the left, to the left. Down one. Yeah two of those thanks boss

[Nimrod Safegarden @NimrodSafegrdn]

The worst night of sleep because of your dad's ridiculous snoring

First game at 9:47am but report to the field at 7:30 for no reason

Temp: 101 in the air, 113 on the turf

Location: 15-20 minutes outside a mid tier southeastern city

Good times. Take me back.

[Rob Gucci @heatdaddy69420]

This is awesome

[Foolish Baseball @FoolishBB]

NOBODY:

3RD BASE COACHES TELLING YOU TO STEAL:

[Pat McAfee @PatMcAfeeShow]

From a jail cell.. to the top of the podium at the Olympics

GOD BLESS AMERICA

and

GOD BLESS SCOTTIE SCHEFFLER