Personal Narrative: The Day When I Break A Social Norm

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The day when I broke a social norm was during the weekend. The place I went too was West Valley Mall. I decided to go with saying hello to random people on the street and inside the Malls of the place. Usually, you don’t say hi to random people, which is why I decided to go on breaking this social norm. I started to say hello as soon as we parked the car. I even said hello to the people who were driving and waiting for us to cross the street. My parents automatically thought I was crazy. At first, I didn’t want to tell them what I was doing I wanted to see what would happen to their reactions, but later I told them because I sort of went overboard. The first mall we went to was JC-Penny and I started to say hello. I made people laugh of those

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