Personal Narrative: A Loss Of Candy

A Loss of Candy Last Halloween night, in my neighborhood, I was trick-or-treating. As it was a little after six o'clock, the sun was just setting; it cast a beautiful shade of purple across the sky. All kinds of skeletons, goblins, and other monsters had started to roam about. I had had a specific plan for how I wanted to trick-or-treat. Everything was going smoothly; I was stocking up on candy. I was about to go into the outskirts of my neighborhood and I had almost filled my bag already. That is when it happened. I had not known about them, but there they were. Like four submarines hiding under the radar of a big battleship, my friends were trick-or-treating in my neighborhood. I watched as they got 3 more houses before finally noticing …show more content…
We had to make a full u-turn, passing the houses we had already gotten. By the time we got to the houses, it was twenty minutes to eight o’clock, the official end of Halloween. I did not receive any full size candy bars from any of the houses, in fact, they were all dreadful candies like tootsie rolls or lollipops. After getting all of the big houses, we needed to split up and it was five minutes to eight. So, I got the last few houses I could, and went straight back home. After counting my candy, I realized that I could have at least tripled the amount of candy I had gotten. After realizing this, I was irritated that I was not able to get the maximum amount of candy. If I followed the route, we would have gotten all of the neighborhood and would have an overflowing bag of candy. I felt like I had really missed out on a lot of candy and not risen up to my full potential. To think flexibly was very helpful when I went trick-or-treating in that I had a set plan on where to go during Halloween. It was put into play when I saw my friends and did not want to leave them. Even though I had wanted more candy, I still went with my friends. It taught me to be more open to different situations, and I learned to be