Young Guns Learning

When people are young people tend to make a lot of mistakes like failing a class or lying to parents. But sometimes people make even worse choices and multiple things in one go. Like the time I decided to go behind my parents’ backs and at the same time I lied to them. I was young but old enough to know better than to lie and go behind my parents’ backs. I still have no explanation as to why I did it. I told my parents that I was going to a basketball game with some of my friends but I purposely left out who those friends were because I knew that I wasn’t supposed to be hanging out with them.

Well, I went anyway and I knew in the back of my mind that I should just leave and tell my parents what I did, and hope that they didn’t care because I left. I didn’t listen to myself and stayed. The game was a good game and I was glad that I stayed, then we all decided that we were hungry so we went over to get my truck so we could all go get McDonald’s. We arrive at McDonald’s and order I pay for everyone and we get our food and leave. We get back to where they all parked and decide it’s still early and hang out in the parking lot for a little bit. Well while I am chilling in the parking lot with them. I was not paying attention and did not know that my father had turned off of his location and was heading toward me. So we finally decided that it was time to head home for the night and as I got on the highway I get a phone call from my father. At this point I still don’t know that he knows who I was with. I answer “hello Dad:” a few seconds go by with no response so I say it aging “hello dad.” he responds “hello son what are you doing ” me thinking he doesn’t know who I was with I say leaving the basketball game.

What he said next I knew something was up. He goes “who were you with at the basketball game” So I say some of who was there waking up to leave out certain people. Well, he knows who I was really with so he asks aging “who were you with at the basketball game” at this point I know it’s better to just tell him so I do. He says “Thank you for being honest but you still went behind my back and lied to me so for that there will be a punishment but because you owned up and told me who you were with I won’t add an extra one.” He tells me to hurry up and get home. I say “okay” and hang up. When I get home he is sitting in the living room waiting for me. He tells me that I have lost my phone and my truck for an undetermined amount of time. I will get them back when he feels as though he can trust me and I have earned them back. At first, I was mad at my dad but with having no phone and nothing to do you start to think a lot. I started to think about what would have happened if I just didn’t go or if I had just kept lying to him about. But overall I learned that if you own up to your mistakes you are a lot more likely to get a lessened punishment and perhaps a learning experience if you treat it the right way.

“Learn from Yesterday” by Lel4nd is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

“Highway Driving Sunset” by shibuya246 is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.