What a lie OP, I think I've also done that in the past that I've lied to my parents that I've bought food instead because I've lost during I was in high school with my classmates through computers games. Well, what crazy stuff we did before when we were younger but as we grow old, those aren't a thing to us anymore as we've got our jobs, savings, and money. We don't have to tell a lie anymore because we can stand on our own and we can now give back to our parents whether we gamble or not.
Funny, but it really happened, as we grow and have our owned money now to use for this activity. Those old days that lingering to our minds, funny things that we escape for telling lies to our parents.
Gambling when we still young are part of those good and bad memories. Sometimes we really enjoy since we won some.
But when shit happened to us, we even suffer, I remember I need to walk from school to our house as I emptied my pocket
losing my money with local gambling games., I need to tell my parent that I left my wallet in my room just to prevent them nagging at me.