Reflective Essay About My First Time Ever Going To Jail

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My lesson learned story is going to be about my first time ever going to jail. It happened in the summer of my senior year at the end of June. It all started one day after football practice when i got home and some friends ask before I left practice did I wanted to go hoop today when I get home and I replied saying “yea”. So when I got home to get dress, i left to go meet them at a friend house but before I got there it was a altercation with me and this guy name krit which was the neighborhood barber. The fight started because I was walking out the house and seen some people at the pool but I kept walking and seen krit and some other people getting out the pool throwing the football. So I asked them to throw the ball to me and when they threw it I decided to not catch but as soon I tried to pick it up he grab me while he was still wet from the pool. I reacted by pushing him off me and when I did that he thought I was trying to swing on him. So he got made and decided to talk shit to me and when he did that, I started talking shit back to him. Then that’s when he pushed …show more content…

When he did that I just snap and punch him twice in the face. After I hit him, he started swing back at me but before he could land a punch the police yelled “stop’!! we stop while he call back up to arrest us and he was asking how old were we and we told him our ages and he replied saying “ oh going to the big house” as soon as I heard that I realized that I had just made the dumbest decision by getting in to this fight with kirt and I wasn’t going to no juvenile jail either. When he got done talking to us, he put us in the car and took us to the holding cell to get our information. While they were doing that me and krit was talking and realize that we had a misunderstanding about the whole thing. Now we feel pretty stupid that we put our self in this

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