@GregTompsett The yellow line is actually best, if it extended another parking space. My daughter’s driving instructor taught us this - go so front of your car is 1.5 spots past where you want, turn the wheel hard as you start backing in and you are perfectly aligned.
@ByMHarrington Kim and Terry, fine. One of their daughters is also involved (maybe more with Bills, not sure). Jessica the tennis player, no (even though I love her rooting for Buffalo teams).
Wow Josh Allen just ices the Chiefs with this amazing touchdown run 🔥🔥
2 minutes left, is this the first loss of the season for KC?
#NFL#joshallen#Chel5ea#Mahomes
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.
@ChrisTrapasso true, but the Rams also have only used their first rounder like three times in the past decade, so they are also using trades pretty aggresively...