At the table, those with chips are friends; without them, you’re just another dish.

At a dinner table, those with chips are called friends. Those without are just another dish on the menu.

You think that after a few senior guys treat you to dinner and give you a couple of compliments straight out of school, you're now friends?

You think bumping into people a notch above you every day makes you worldly?

That's called "seeing," not "understanding."

See, you've seen them. But they've never heard of you.

See? That's how the word for worldliness breaks apart.