What lie did you tell?

[Rruchi man]

On that faithful day I got attracted by the crowd and I felt it was too easy to play after watching the board man shuffle series of games I was able to spot the match box without staking and at that point it appeared too simple. I had to stake $4 for a start and I won $8 I was so amazed at how easy this game was and I had to stake the entire Fiats currency in my pockets which was about $45 and ended up losing everything. I became confused all I could figure out is the lies I will tell my parents on how armmed rubbers met on my way and took away the fiat meant to buy foodstuffs.

The people you met were all criminals trying to make a dubious Living by preying on the innocence of bystanders and taking advantage of your greed. There is a popular saying -"the more you look, the less you see'' and that is exactly what you fell a victim for.

I have been a victim of this type of cheap gambling scam before just to discover on observation that most of the people standing around such places all know themselves and act like they do not. ( They are all members of the same dubious criminal gang) putting up an act, hoping to entice innocent individuals to come play with their fiat.

Don't beat yourself so much, that was your first experience to the street and street gambling and such experiences are meant to make you smarter and street conscious, so truthfully you met robbers, just that were not armed.

[Strongkored]

A lie that fails, maybe it's better to admit it because it's a lie or to be honest you will get the same reaction which is a punch. Never do anything like you ever did, but lying because other things have done, because humans must have lied only the causes and reasons are different.
The good thing about your story is that you immediately lose because if you are able to double the money it will continue with another lie.

[newwest]

how many times this happened ? because if it happens a lot your parents are not convinced in your alibi's anymore but if it was the first time you can easily get away with it without getting harmed but i still dont encnourage that because lying is a sin .
 if you can be honest with your parents they could have given you a money  to spend in that kind of entertainment  .

Ona bigger picture, if it has become a habit then it will not only be restricted to the gambling but to other things in life as well and this is more bigger worry for that matter. So truth is always best or else if cannot speak it then other option left is to stop is permanently till you are earning good amount for yourself and can spend on certain ratio in gambling.

[Reid]

Old school story and gambling ways. That's a nice story and I believe you, not the lie though.   
I can relate. Stole a couple of dollars from my Aunt in his bag and try to double it with gambling. When I got home, I knew something bad is going to happen.
Heads down, don't look up or you will see it in their eyes like you are a suspect of a crime in the streets.
When you are a kid, it's difficult to make them believe what you will say. Of course, that's because they know you or your habits will show when lying.

[gabbie2010]

I also witnessed a similar gambling event mentioned by the OP in my country, but I dare not or lack the courage to use the money I was sent for buying stuffs and gamble with it, the country where I came from allows parents to subject their kids to flogging once they misbehaved, thus I knew that if I tried to gamble with that money and ended up losing the Fiat, I knew I am in a serious trouble, no amount of lieing would convince my parent to reason with me, I will be severely punished, I can't even lie that I lost the money along the road, it will also be unacceptable excuse.

[btc78]

You are the worst liar i ever met, imagine that Money is for the foods of the family INCLUDING you but instead of telling them what really happens , you made it with total lie , if i were your parents? i will let you starve for that whole week as you spend the budget for 1 week food (if that is the equivalent of 45$ that time)

I only lied to my family about cutting classes in which i did several times when i was in Highschool but never did for any stupid gambling activities.

[topbitcoin]

What i lie maybe when i get money from gambling contest, but i said to my parents if i do trading. In my family, gambling is prohibited and i think they will be mad if i get money from gambling or maybe doing gambling itself. So until now i am not tell them if i play gambling in crypto. Gladly i am not really much doing it because i know losses will be more than what we won.

[madnessteat]

While I was growing up I used money meant for purchasing foodstuffs to gamble , I can recall in one of those occasions while on my way to the market i met some group of guys who were into local match box gambling. This was my first time of been exposed to gambling. This boxes were filled with groundnuts on one end and sand on the other end. This match boxes would be shuffled then the gambler will be asked to pick the box with groundnuts inside and if such gets lucky enough he wins by doubling his stake but if he losses his fiat is gone.

On that faithful day I got attracted by the crowd and I felt it was too easy to play after watching the board man shuffle series of games I was able to spot the match box without staking and at that point it appeared too simple. I had to stake $4 for a start and I won $8 I was so amazed at how easy this game was and I had to stake the entire Fiats currency in my pockets which was about $45 and ended up losing everything. I became confused all I could figure out is the lies I will tell my parents on how armmed rubbers met on my way and took away the fiat meant to buy foodstuffs. I got the beating equivalent to the fiat I lost  but I tried my best to convince my parents I wasn't lieing.

It would be better for you if you told your parents the truth. Most likely your father would have scolded you and told you all the methods of street scams he knew, which were presented to you in the form of gambling, and then you would not have fallen for such tricks. I have a negative attitude towards lying, especially when a person lies to the people closest to them.

[michellee]

I can not remember what lies I already did to play gambling because that was long ago. But if you lie for just playing gambling, that will not be easy, especially if you lose all of the money and do not have a right reason why you lose the money.

The first time, maybe it looks easy to win some money, but then, the dealer will not let you win for more and will make you lose the money. We do not know if they cheat on us or that it is just coincidentally, but that really happens to us and we only regret what we already did while we will hard to recover the losing money.

[NeuroticFish]

I got attracted by the crowd and I felt it was too easy to play after watching the board man shuffle series of games I was able to spot the match box without staking and at that point it appeared too simple. I had to stake $4 for a start and I won $8 I was so amazed at how easy this game was and I had to stake the entire Fiats currency in my pockets which was about $45 and ended up losing everything.

I've got a similar experience many years ago. I was a student back then, I've been receiving money from my parents on a monthly basis and that day I've lost all the money for that month and some extra for buying winter clothes for myself.

The only lie was that I didn't find clothes I like yet, but for more than a month I've eaten almost exclusively bread with lard so that I've received new money next month and I've also put aside enough money for those clothes. It was not pleasant and it was a good experience for "if it's too good to be true...", since it was no proper/fair gambling in my case, it was a scam disguised in gambling at the corner of the street.

[crzy]

You're on a difficult situation since the money you gamble was meant for the family foods supposedly and yet you used it to gamble, I'm pretty sure your family wont believe on your any excuses though maybe they'll just think that you steal the money from them, better not to lie at all.

I'm not using important money in gambling, they are meant for the basic needs and not for gambling and beside I have my own budget in gambling so I don't have to lie to my parents or to my wife since their money is still safe with me and of course, I'm providing their needs so there's no reason for them to get mad at me.

[hahay]

I have never lied about it and in fact, every pocket money my parents gave me during my school days was always used in the right way and/or command. It was a lie that happened when I was able to earn my own money by working, when I got a big win at that time when I gambled at an offline bookie but then my parents asked. About the things I got in what way because my parents only knew, basically my income was not enough to buy these things and I lied at that time.

[just_Alice]

I never got engaged in gambling when I was a kid. My parents, deliberately or not, too often used the expression “lost a fortune to a casino”, “lost all money and became homeless”, etc. when talking about homeless, desperate people or criminals. So growing up I was even afraid to come anywhere near gambling. I never got anti-gambling propaganda, though, it was always somewhere in the middle of the conversation, but somehow it was one of my biggest fears - to lose everything to a casino. It seemed so stupid and sad.

Things have changed since then. Now I gamble, occasionally, but rather carefully and try not to spend too much money.

However, in your case, I would’ve probably told my parents the truth. Parents always can tell when the kid is lying, so by doing so one only makes things worse. I think it’s better to confess and show, that you sincerely regret something and hope for compassion and understanding.

[Slow death]

I didn't have to lie, in Africa children are playing cards while betting money, of course it's not a very high amount of money and it doesn't even reach $3, but parents know that children play cards and make bets, the same happens when the children play soccer they place bets on which team will win, and also the children's parents know that their children place bets on soccer games... there are dozens of games that children place bets on in Africa and that the parents know, but it's unbelievable I've never heard any kids become addicted, and I think the reason is simple: because when kids grow up in Africa they don't have the money to go to physical casinos and have little time or interest in making online bets.

[robelneo]

While I was growing up I used money meant for purchasing foodstuffs to gamble , I can recall in one of those occasions while on my way to the market i met some group of guys who were into local match box gambling. This was my first time of been exposed to gambling. This boxes were filled with groundnuts on one end and sand on the other end. This match boxes would be shuffled then the gambler will be asked to pick the box with groundnuts inside and if such gets lucky enough he wins by doubling his stake but if he losses his fiat is gone.

On that faithful day I got attracted by the crowd and I felt it was too easy to play after watching the board man shuffle series of games I was able to spot the match box without staking and at that point it appeared too simple. I had to stake $4 for a start and I won $8 I was so amazed at how easy this game was and I had to stake the entire Fiats currency in my pockets which was about $45 and ended up losing everything. I became confused all I could figure out is the lies I will tell my parents on how armmed rubbers met on my way and took away the fiat meant to buy foodstuffs. I got the beating equivalent to the fiat I lost  but I tried my best to convince my parents I wasn't lieing.

I did not come to a point where I have to lie to hide my losses in gambling, when we are young we tend to be like that,  it's not really the amount of money but the way we lose it that we want to hide, who will be on the right mind that will tell his parents that he losses the money because of gambling, our parents will not only beat us they will become very strict on us, no parents will want their children to gamble when they are not yet on the right age.

[Sterbens]

We all did make mistakes when we were kids. We have no experience at that time, not even understanding what the consequences are. I have done something like that when I saw my mother told me to go to my uncle's house to get some cash from my father who attends a gathering. When I arrived I saw my father on a makeshift deck table dealing cards.

He gave me about $80 but gave my mother about $60 only. Later she found out whipped my ass almost a hundred times. She gave me a hundred times more when she learned I went to the nearby carnival, bet $20, and lose.

what? whipped my ass almost a hundred times? really terrible bro, we laughed at the same time can not imagine how your face at this time after being whipped that much. That's a mother and you will definitely miss the times you can't go back to. Now that you are older and know what gambling is like, even if you didn't experience gambling as a child, lies to the mother always get forgiveness without you asking.

[panjul07]

Main lesson here is not about "do not lie" but more about do not gambling with the money that should be used for other things.
In other words, we should spend spare money only to gamble.
Frankly speaking, I experienced similar thing when I was on high school when I knew lottery game for the 1st time.
I used to get pocket money from my parents per month because they want to teach me how to spend money wisely.
Unfortunately, I lost my monthly pocket money in few days only because I gambled it in lottery game.
I did not tell my parents about it and I did not ask them for more money, as a consequence I had to work as snack reseller door to door after school.
Fun fact, my parents did not know about what I did till the time I told them when I graduated.  

[chaser15]

What did you learn from that experience? For me, that kind of act is childish and why should you do that?

Even your parents will go ravage once you tell them the truth, it's more comfortable to say the truth rather than keep it secret for long. If only you are true to your words, you might get some good advice from your parents instead and they will not get mad.

Don't do that again.

[YOSHIE]

I got the beating equivalent to the fiat I lost  but I tried my best to convince my parents I wasn't lieing.

You may not have to put all your fiat money of $45, in that bet, even though you have been awarded $8 in winnings, it may be a trap, to increase your bet, because you have to buy food to take home, if it was me, of course I would have bought food first, the rest of it I just put at stake in gambling games, so I don't have to lie to my parents.

Anyone who has experienced something like you they will lie and say something to say when they get home, because there is no food to take home, let alone your parents, I will be angry if that happens, but if I lie a little, maybe there is still consideration for my parents' anger, you save yourself from anger, because you lost the gamble, with your actions accidentally, a family will be hungry at that time, there is no food you bring.

[Smartprofit]

While I was growing up I used money meant for purchasing foodstuffs to gamble , I can recall in one of those occasions while on my way to the market i met some group of guys who were into local match box gambling. This was my first time of been exposed to gambling. This boxes were filled with groundnuts on one end and sand on the other end. This match boxes would be shuffled then the gambler will be asked to pick the box with groundnuts inside and if such gets lucky enough he wins by doubling his stake but if he losses his fiat is gone.

On that faithful day I got attracted by the crowd and I felt it was too easy to play after watching the board man shuffle series of games I was able to spot the match box without staking and at that point it appeared too simple. I had to stake $4 for a start and I won $8 I was so amazed at how easy this game was and I had to stake the entire Fiats currency in my pockets which was about $45 and ended up losing everything. I became confused all I could figure out is the lies I will tell my parents on how armmed rubbers met on my way and took away the fiat meant to buy foodstuffs. I got the beating equivalent to the fiat I lost  but I tried my best to convince my parents I wasn't lieing.

I had a similar story.  I was a little boy and wanted to find friends. 

In the courtyard of the house, I met a group of boys.  They were all older than me.  They were ruled by a tall red-haired boy named John Silver.  He constantly broke his legs and walked on a crutch. 

He taught me how to play (play dice)  I didn’t know that John Silver was a sharpie and cheated at dice.  He poured lead into dice.  I won the first and second rounds.  However, in the future, I lost all the money that my parents gave me for school meals. 

I suffered from hunger for a whole week.  I haven't told anyone about this.  I was very ashamed.