Lesson Learned

Author’s Note: I wrote this piece for a personal narrative. I focused on my conclusion and my body paragraphs.  This is about a bad memory that happened to me last summer in Kansas for a soccer tournament.

Learning a lesson is usually not enjoyable. Especially if it has something to do with a vital object that you use every day. This item is my phone. It was probably the most un-smart thing I will ever do in my life. I learned a lesson about my phone when I was almost 575 miles away from my hometown, Pewaukee.

Retelling miserable memories can sometimes be heartbreaking but my mine isn’t too sad, just frustrating. After playing a game of Impractical Jokers with my soccer team throughout the hotel, we decided to go swimming in the pool and hot tub. “Splash!” as soon as we walk into the pool outside we see a girl constantly doing bell flops! While watching it, it felt like glass shattering on the floor but on my stomach. It was interesting the first five times, but after that she was definitely doing it just for attention. After she was finally done we decided to hop in the pool for a while. Our team played a game called “Tee” in the deeper end of the pool but it got sort of boring after a while. I decided to get out of the pool because I was getting cold. Since I had nothing else to do, I played with my hotel key and phone. I placed the card between the keyboard and screen and start to slide my phone from keyboard to just the screen. After about ten slides I noticed a little black piece of paper with wires in it sticking out of the phone. I tried to turn on the phone but it was too late, my phone’s screen wouldn’t turn on  and it was broken.

There were many negatives about my phone breaking, the worst was that I had to send it all the way to Texas just to get it fixed. Not to mention it took them three weeks just to fix the screen. Worst of all I didn’t have my phone for an overnight soccer camp in Madison,  and a one week vacation with my family to The Big Apple and Washington D.C. Just to add to the negative list, my card also wouldn’t have worked because it was near my phone. Hotel keys never work when they are near electronic devices like phones and iPods. I learned to never mess with my phone when I am at least 500 miles away from home.

There were only two positive things about breaking my phone to go along with a bunch of negatives. First of all, they fixed it to make it work again. Another one of the positives was that I got a new screen because it wouldn’t work before. Plus, the screen was cracked before it started to not work so I got a normal screen put on the phone. There were close to none for good things about breaking my phone.

In conclusion, breaking my phone was horrible. I couldn’t contact friends or if I got lost in New York City, I wouldn’t be able to find my family unless I told the police. I also wouldn’t be able to call my parents if I was somewhere and needed to contact my parents. At least I got my phone fixed and almost as good as new. This was not a great memory that I will remember for a long time. I learned to never play with my phone away from home ever again!