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[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.

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

If Shakira doesn’t have a song for this World Cup then what’s the point?

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

Are the kids going crazy today because it’s 6/7?

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

I became a father today.

[kpg @notoriouskpg]

this just looks like the scene from Hot Rod when Rod goes to his quiet place and does the Footloose dance

[NFL Talk @NFL_Talk_Sports]

Who won the trade between GB and DAL?

🔁 Green Bay Packers
❤️ Dallas Cowboys

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

@IKE_Packers

[Daire Carragher @DaireCarragher]

Sniped the Longhorns best player and Cowboys best player in the same offseason

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

Joke from Jess’ friend: “Oscar Mayer no wiener!”

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

People we got a new kitty from told us it was a boy cat so we named it Oscar. Jess took it to the vet and they say it’s a girl cat. Oscar is an Osc-her!

[Vivid Void @vividvoid]

gm

[Andrew Durso @andrew_durso]

crafting my statement

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

“Bears still suck” chants on draft night, you love to see it.

[Civ @MisterCiv]

rise and grind

[👨🏻 @ShermanLurch]

“I made a milk sandwich for lunch, with a cold glass of bread!”

[Sassington, M.C. @MissSassbox]

I thought he was joking when he said a "milk sandwich" and much to my surprise, he was very serious. I'll be damned.

[doctor worm @awaitingtrial]

Those bastards. They hit us in the night

[Robb Rockham @bigtimerobb]

White people will tell you they couldn’t understand a word Kendrick said and then put on some Pearl Jam.

[gibby @ClaireSassman]

Checking the weather to plan my outfit for tomorrow