Taking a Gamble

I was at a casino with my family. The first game I played was similar to one Nyakouth really liked at Chuckie Cheese, where you drop a ball onto a spinning wheel and you get the number of tickets marked on the place your ball drops. My ball dropped on the $1 million. I was shocked because I never ever win anything. My first thought was that I was going to be able to buy an iPhone, which made me so happy.

Bundles of cash popped out of the machine, and I didn’t know what to do with them. I didn’t have any pockets or a purse, so I raced around the casino looking for my mom with the cash in my hand. A gang of girl bullies saw my loot and wanted to try to steal it from me, but I was able to escape from them.

When I finally caught up with my parents, I looked more closely at the bills I had in my hand and realized that it totaled $10,000 at most. I went to find the general manager to get the rest of my money, but he insisted $10,000 was all I needed. I argued with him that it was totally unfair to not give me what I had won, but he wouldn’t relent.

I was worried about winning this money because I thought it would make me addicted to gambling.