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Personal Narrative: When I Buy A Fish

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Kennady Peters and I have been best friends ever since the age of two when we were in the same pre-school class. During our sophomore year of high school, we were inseparable. There were times where Kennady would stays for days at a time at my house. We would play video games, watch movies, or just talk and hang out.
Eventually, those tiny activities got boring. On the night of February 13th, we decided to go to Tequila’s for dinner. We had a lot of fun, but we were not ready to go home just yet. We needed something more adventurous and mischievous to do. We decided to go to Walmart to buy a fish. Once we got to Walmart, we looked at all of the fish, but ended up leaving because we realized that we couldn’t really “play” with a fish. In the …show more content…

We would all go inside, but Devin would go find a worker and buy the hamster, while Kennady and I pretended to look at dog toys. Since he was 18 and the man working couldn’t care less about his job or anything happening, he gave Devin the hamster without even looking at his ID. We gave Devin the money to buy it and we finally got our own hamster! After saying many thank-yous to Devin for coming to help us, we decided to take our little “baby” home. Keep in mind that my parents gave me no permission and knew absolutely nothing about us buying any pet at …show more content…

We chose to name him Farley after the famous comedian, Chris Farley. We named him this because he was both overweight and funny, just like Chris Farley was. Kennady and I had the time of our lives whenever we picked out accessories and toys for him to play with. We bought him a little car that he could play in, although he was too fat to even fit inside of it. We even made a license plate for the car that said ‘FATASS2’. We watched him play with his toys for hours on end and enjoyed shoving the hamster down the sleeves of our shirts the most. It was so ticklish and funny whenever he would crawl up and down our arms. Right before bed, I remember just watching him play in his tiny hamster wheel and thinking about how lucky I was that my mom let me keep

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