Personal Narrative: I Told You So

“I told you so” is the phrase everyone loves to say when their advice or warning they give is ignored and ends up being the thing people should have listened to. We all have those triumphant moments of “I told you so” and in my case my “I told you so” moment was extremely funny to watch unfold. This past Christmas break my entire family and I took a vacation down to the beach house in Florida. On the first night all my cousins and I decided to walk along the beach while the sun was setting. Knowing that Florida nights are warm and somewhat humid, I knew that mosquitoes would be out. I suggested we bring, or at least put on bug spray so we wouldn’t get eaten alive but no one wanted to put the spray on, complaining how it “irritates my skin”
or “the smell makes me want to barf”. So in the end I was the only one to put on the repellent. As we walked along the beach that night, we didn’t feel or hear any bugs flying around so my cousins told me that there were no mosquitoes out that night and then we went to bed.
The next morning, you guessed it, they all had dozens of big, red, swollen mosquito bites along their arms, legs and faces, while I didn’t have any. I didn’t have to actually say “I told you so”, instead every time one of them scratched their bites, I just gave them a mocking “sucks for you” look, which got me a friendly gesture in reply. For the rest of the vacation in Florida I watched my cousins being tortured by bites and I relished in my “I told you so” moment . “I told you so” moments might not happen very often, but when they do it's makes you feel very triumphant because you made the other person look stupid and yourself look like the smart one, which probably doesn’t happen very often either.