Personal Narrative: The Field

When I was twelve years old, my friends and I went to a place we called: “ The field.” The neighborhood kids and I would play all kinds of sports there. One summer day, we were playing baseball. My friend was up to bat my other friend was pitching, I was playing the field along with others. My friend pitched the ball. My other friend swung and the ball was called foul, but that is where all the houses were. Because it went out of the field and into an area where there were houses. The baseball broke someone’s window, All of us were scared and started running away. We did not know that a neighbor had seen the whole incident. An hour or two later, the people from the house with the broken window , came to my friend’s house and spoke with his
My friend's parents were mad at all of us, The owners of the house with the broken window were happy that they got a truthful answer. The owners of the house stated that it would cost approximately one hundred dollars to replace the window. We all looked at each other since we were only twelve and had no jobs. How could we come up with that money without borrowing it. We did not want to get in trouble with the police, so we said that we could pay them back. My friends got grounded and my friends parents told my parents. I got grounded as well, for lying to a grownup. This punishment had an unforeseen benefit we had to stay near our homes and come up with a plan to make money. our parents said they were not going to help us. They felt we need to learn how to handle this situation, it like young adults. We all had lawn mowers and weed eaters. All of us robbed our piggy banks and use the money for gas , weed eater string, and oil to mix the gas. One of my friend added up how much we would charge and how many yards we had to do to make the money. We decided to charge ten dollars for a small yard and fifteen dollors for a large
Then we realized that we have to find enough yards to cut to make money for the window. We needed to cut at least fifteen small yards to pay for the broken window. We walked up and down the streets, knocking on doors of houses need their yard cut. We did not get our first yard until we went to six different houses. It took us thirty minutes to do one yard. We took turns on cutting grass. On our first day we cut three yards and made thirty dollars. We needed one hundred and twenty more dollars to pay the neighbors back in the window.the next day after school, we got our chores done and started cutting more lawns . Eventulally we made enough money to pay for the window. When we completed the task , our parents came with us to deliver the money. I knocked on the door and the neighbors with the damage window answered, they still had a bag taped over the broken window. We handed them the money and they thanked us. We said we that we're sorry and that it will not happen again. The adults were surprised that we came up with the money in a week and one day. At first we thought we could not make enough money, but we