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Personal Narrative: Nintendo 3ds

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Have you ever wasted money in hopes of winning something that you have never received? I have done this once about five years ago; what happened was my family and my cousins once went on a cruise ship for a nice vacation. Since it was vacation, the adults didn't want to deal with us all the time, so they often let us have free reign. There were many activities available to us on the cruise, one of them being an arcade. Before we did anything, our parents gave us a limit to how much money we could spend there. Since I was just a kid at the time, all the games and prizes available brainwashed me. For one game, called BarberCut Lite, one of the prizes available was a Nintendo 3DS, and we really wanted a Nintendo 3DS. As a result …show more content…

At this point, I wasn't focused on winning a dispensable 3DS. Instead, I was very anxious about the bill from the arcade and what my parents had to say, and it was hard to keep my mind off of the topic; at the time it felt like a malignant crime. I knew for a fact that I had spent too much and was too scared to find out exactly how much I spent. I felt guilty and dumb for spending so much money, more than the actual cost, trying to win a Nintendo 3DS. I hoped that my parents wouldn't say anything about it or get mad, but I knew that something would happen. Eventually, of course, my dad saw the bill but was surprisingly calm about it. I could tell that he was disappointed though despite this. I may not have won the shiny 3DS that was offered at the arcade, but I learned a lesson of much more value than an unnecessary gaming device. By wasting money at an arcade in hopes of winning something that I never won, I learned that I need to be more cautious of money and how I spend it, in addition to not spending too much money on something that I hope to win because there is always a chance that I will not

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