@EODHappyCaptain And that’s why I keep an emergency ziplock full of dude wipes in my leg pocket. All it takes it one bad experience to learn REAL quick
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.
@opining14us@alexangle_@TheAlabamaPoll While he still may win, Trumps endorsement means nothing in Alabama. Just ask Luther Strange or Mo Brooks how far that got them
@EODHappyCaptain This is a local issue. I believe it was planted by the water company. The explosion isn’t very big and wasn’t heard by anyone around, would the charge use to set it off create that type of boom?
@romanhelmetguy Excellent point. We don’t need Europe, Europe needs us. We originally allied for 2 main reasons. 1.USSR 2.We shared the same values. Neither of those are true anymore. A understanding with Russia that we have the western hemisphere and they have the eastern will destroy Europe
Would love to see someone try to disrupt a Baptist Church service in Northeast Georgia. They wouldn’t have gotten past the vestibule
Hell hath no fury like a Baptist when the sermon doesn’t end by noon so we can beat the Methodists (all of whom are going to hell) to lunch