☼ sarah ☼

now if she touches like this... @maryy_cakee

[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.

[Natalia @pinaculotta1]

Wrigley when Evan was cussing him out:

#tellmelies #TellMeLies3

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

Archeologists digging up Miami in 1,000 years

[kendall @hasansstache]

WE'RE ALL NEW YORKERS TONIGHT BAYBEEEEE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

BREAKING: WOKE IS BACK! THERE ARE 25 GENDERS. WE'RE GOING TO TRANS THE ECONOMY. DEI FOR EVERY CHILD. AND WE'RE RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES!!!

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

3 months ago, today, Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Trump supporter.

They had kids, too.

[Meg @megannn_lynne]

i don’t watch the 2 brothers show but i hope for the sake of everyone’s mental health that the one with sad eyes beats the one with evil curly hair

[saph 🌱 @kajisenpaii]

the curse of closing things off during season 7 #loveislandusa

[S @skkxaaa]

U can tell the moment Huda is upset that Chris didn’t mention her as his “peak” during the dinner. And u want me to believes these ppl are going to the finals. HE DONT EVEN LIKE HER #loveislandusa

[. @awmaiii]

i know pepe want nic’s sister

[trish @ultragloss]

chris has to be the first person in love island history to make it to the final against his will #loveislandusa

[𝑨𝒃𝒃𝒚⁷ @kookiemonssta]

i hate this man can still get a chuckle outta me lmaoo #loveislandusa

[Kay @sayheykay_]

Iris doesn’t owe Huda a damn thing!!!!! “She’s not a girls girl” BITCH THIS IS LOVE ISLAND!!!!! SHE HAS FRIENDS AT HOME HOE #LoveIslandUSA

[tori 🪩🥂🍒 @bensonscully]

me at the ripe age of 26 urban dictionarying a slang term i don’t know

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

“it is what it is” *vomits from anxiety*

[Ava :/ @avapologies]

Rest in peace Jimmy Carter, you were our most Scarlett Johansson looking president

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

They are not.