Teresa Benjamin

[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.

[Teresa Benjamin @tabenjamin84]

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[NWS Melbourne @NWSMelbourne]

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Wow. Go up to a month.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Our social media manager was furloughed, but... Almost Friday 🪇

[Florida’s Voice @FLVoiceNews]

#NEW: Palm Bay City Council approves ICE collaboration as part of Florida’s statewide illegal immigration crackdown

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[⫷ Age of Endarkenment ⫸ @ExistentialEDU]

@LostRiverCave Whoa! Here’s a photo I took when I was there for comparison. Same buildings.

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

As of April 2, we will begin using 100% Grade A Wisconsin butter to replace the current buttery blend, which contains seed oils. This change will be made in all of our restaurants

[The Maury Show @TheMAURYShow]

I’m sitting this one out

[Steve Inman @SteveInman]

Man records the last several seconds of his life. RIP Brother.

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Trump gets rid of DEI and immediately 53 Indian Chiefs get massacred on live tv

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