𝙄'𝙢 𝙎𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜...

      One day, Tails, on his own website TailsTube, was asked a question about me: “Where do I live?” and he replied that I don’t have a home at all. Of course, I didn’t believe this nonsense. How could my best friend even lie like that about me? After all, I have my own beautiful house in which I live, and besides, I was once in a casino and decided to play for fun in order to lose ten dollars that I accidentally found lying on the road. But by chance I was probably just lucky and won two thousand dollars. Of course, I was shocked, but at the same time I was glad that I won so much money and became rich. I then screamed with joy and jumped so loudly that the guards almost kicked me out into the street. With this money I won, I decided to buy myself fashionable sunglasses and a gold chain around my neck. In addition, I ordered a lot of emeralds and diamonds from the miners. He even asked Shadow for a couple of purple crystals in exchange for five hundred dollars. Fortunately, it was not difficult to persuade him. In addition, on both hands I now had precious and shiny wristwatches between the gloves. Fortunately, I still had three hundred dollars left and I could finally pay off all my debts on the house. Yes Yes. While I lived at home, I always did not pay utility bills for a very long time. And I didn’t do this at all, because I had very little money and only had enough for food, and even less left for chili dogs, my favorite. Well, and also for some entertainment. So today I thought I would pay for everything, but I decided later. After all, right now I had more important things to do. I wanted to go to the store for food and at that very moment I accidentally met Knuckles on the way. Of course I greeted him: — Hello, Knuckles. — Hello. Listen, Sonic, I heard that you raised a lot of money when you were at the casino? Well, you sure are cool, Sonic! I've always liked you for that. — Thank you, Knuckles. — Listen! I have a problem here. I don't have enough money for food. Could you give me a little? And then I’ll return it to you one of these days! — No problem, Knux. I have a lot of them. — I could not refuse him, because he was very polite to me and I gave him three hundred dollars. In general, I didn’t give a damn how much money to give him. After all, I had a lot of them. Moreover, on our island, for example, one dollar was about a penny if converted to a Russian ruble. — On the! Now all this money is yours and you don’t even have to pay it back. — Seriously? — he was surprised then, but was glad that he even hugged me. — Thank you very much, Sonic. — Hey, that's not fair, Sonic. What about me? — I immediately heard Espio’s voice behind me. — Do you want it too, Espio? — I asked him and he nodded silently. — Okay! No problem! I am very kind and generous today. — I handed him two hundred and fifty dollars. — Hold it! This is all yours! — HURRAY!!! I'M RICH!!! — he immediately shouted with joy and disappeared from sight, becoming invisible. That's what the Mobians give, of course. Money just blows their minds. Then I saw Amy and, as always, she ran to hug me. I pulled out five hundred dollars sharply and showed it to her. Strangely enough, this stopped her and she accepted my money in exchange for not touching me and not even trying to kiss me. She agreed to this, accepted them and left. I still had four hundred dollars left and then an idea suddenly occurred to me. What if I go to the casino again, play again, and win even more money? What a fool I was then! When I returned to that casino, I first decided not to risk it and also only bet a ten. My bet worked and... I lost. True, I then thought “Well, nothing! Then I was just lucky the first time, but now I’m just unlucky. However, if I believe in myself and don't give up, then I will definitely win someday. And I won’t even care about the money I lost.” Then I bet another ten dollars, made another bet and... I lost again. "That is Okay! It happens to everyone? I’m sure that if you didn’t succeed on the first and second attempts, then you’ll definitely succeed on the third.” But I was in vain hoping for it. After all, I lost another ten. So I bet, and bet, and bet ten, hoping that I would win another two thousand. However, I still lost again and again. In the end, I freaked out and bet all the remaining hundred dollars at once and almost prayed to Chaos that this time I would win and... Lose again. I was so angry, I called the casinos scammers and demanded that everything I lost be returned to me. that the security kicked me out of the casino and into the street. Holy shit, I thought then. “I lost everything. Everything I won before. And what should I do now? I’m slowly becoming some kind of homeless person.” But then, while I was walking home, I tried to calm myself down, thinking: — Okay. I guess I just got too greedy. I have nothing else. Although, why not? I have sunglasses, a chain, a wristwatch and even my house. And they are certainly very expensive. Such merits are not for the homeless, but for normal residents, such as myself. So I’m doing very well and very well. To take my mind off these thoughts, I decided to go to work, and on the way I met Vector. Tom liked my wristwatch, chain and glasses. He asked me for them, and in return he gave them to me to play a new computer game about myself, which I had always dreamed of. Although not official, it is loved by everyone. It was called "Sonic: Omens". I would still have to save up for it and had to agree. After work, I immediately ran home to quickly launch this very game and play it. Fortunately, with her I can take my mind off this whole terrible day when I lost everything. True, I was still a little offended. Now I had no watch, no chain, no glasses. But I rejoiced early because, by coincidence, at that very moment a social worker from the bank arrived. — Hello, have you come to see me? — Hello, Sonic Hedgehog, I am a representative agent from the management company of your house. It was reported to me that you have not paid bills and taxes on your house for a long time, but now you suddenly have a lot of money and asked me to come to you to collect some of it from you as payment. It was here that I immediately realized how badly I had gotten myself into trouble. How can we avoid trouble now? — Um. Do you understand? The thing is... I don't have any money anymore... Not a cent, not a penny at all. I spent everything and I no longer have anything except this box with a disk on which a fan game about me is recorded. I don't know how to pay you. Maybe we can come to an agreement with you and you will give me some kind of deferment? However, the agent was very angry and did not spare me: — What the hell is the delay? You, Mr. Hedgehog, have exactly one day to move out of your house, otherwise you will face prison, or even worse, death by electric chair. Do you understand? — Where should I go? — At least be homeless? You always showed off to everyone that you are free as the wind and can walk wherever you want, which means you logically don’t need a house. I personally don't care. You don't pay. This is how I got myself into trouble. He even lost his house. Why is there a house there? This agent even took away this very box with the disc from me as a fine. Now what Tails said about me on Tails Tube has become true. After that, the next day I became a full-fledged homeless person and began to live on the street, and Shadow now lives in my former house instead of me. For my money, by the way, which I gave to him, since Shadow himself had previously been homeless and lived in a cave. Now it’s as if we have switched roles. I became homeless, walking the streets, rummaging through trash cans that were empty, because in our village everyone was clean and cleaned everything up right away, and at this time I was forced to starve and die from the cold on the street. Only Amy felt a little sorry for me. As soon as she found out that I had become homeless, she began to visit me more often. This time she didn’t try to hug or kiss. She simply felt sorry for me, at least somehow tried to support me, gave me warm blankets and clothes so that I would not freeze on the street, and also bought and gave me normal and fresh food for my own money, which I gave her yesterday. Apparently she realized what a mess I got into since I gave away all my money to everyone, and now she’s almost paying me back all my debt. Although it would be even better if she just gave all this money to the utility agency to pay off all my debts for me and give me back my own house, and evict that black-and-red braggart from my own house. Oddly enough, this also happened. True, not right away. Knuckles and Espio did just that, paying the bills for me and also kicking Shadow out of my house. Oh, how glad I was that my friends supported me and helped me, so that I could go from being a homeless person to becoming an ordinary resident again. All that was left was to take a bath at my house, because I stank of all this crap. Even though my friends helped me when I became homeless, this day will still become the main lesson for me for the rest of my life. That's how I knew it! As I knew. There was no need to spend all this money then. Why am I such a fool? That’s when, because of this, I became what I ended up broke down in the end. He became homeless and lived on the street. Fortunately, I didn’t have to live long, and it was a little easier, because at least someone gave me normal food, and my stomach wasn’t so swollen. Although everything could have been worse, as happens to other homeless people all over the world, the unfortunate ones. How many homeless people live on the street and suffer like I almost suffered, I don’t know? But I began to understand them, because when I was kicked out of the house and became homeless, I was also kicked out of work. After all, homeless people cannot get a job. I hope this story will serve as a lesson for you too, kids. Never! Do you hear? Never gamble in your life. Otherwise, you will not win anything at all, but on the contrary, you will often lose and lose absolutely everything that you had and everything that is so dear to you. Perhaps even family, friends and loved ones who trusted you, but will no longer trust you. And even more so, you never see oneself for a simple income. Because no one will ever give you money so easily in your life. This is the cruel and unfair world we live in. After all, everyone only wants to earn money for themselves and only for themselves. However, if you are lucky and you become rich, then do not be a greedy egoist. Share your money with someone close to you and even with poor people! Of course, don’t spend everything at once, but wisely, so that you, too, have at least something left, so that, for example, you can pay for an apartment or buy a supply of food. The main thing is that you eat it on time so that it does not spoil. Buy only what you really need, and what you really don’t need or won’t need for now, don’t waste money on all this nonsense! I’m telling you this, as probably the first social hedgehog, giving you useful advice. I hope that my life story will serve as a lesson to you. I learned this lesson a long time ago and from now on I will try to never get into such an ass again.