I remember this one time, when I was somewhere between the ages of three and five. I was standing outside a small convenience store in Vancouver with my mother, she had just bought me a scratch and win ticket for reasons now unknown. Anyhow I was standing on the sidewalk scratching vigorously at the thick piece of paper with a borrowed penny, more thrilled at the layer of paint I was removing from the ticket than by the possibility of winning money. After this brief frenzy of penny scratching, I made sure that the entire surface was cleaned of the removable substance. With my task complete I was gazing at the small area I had cleared, the vague notion of checking if I had won anything in mind, unable to tell though I held It up in the air at my mother and hollered at her. “MOM did I win anything?” She looked at the ticket for only two or three seconds before declaring that I had won two dollars. After this point my memory of the whole scene grows fuzzy and I cannot recall if she took the ticket and gave me two dollars. Which would mean that I had possibly not won anything and she was just humoring my small child self. Or the other option is that we went back into the store we were standing in front of and she exchanged the ticket for two loonies (as twoonies did not yet exist) where upon I probably bought candy with them. As I can’t remember which of those endings is the correct one, maybe theres even some third unknown possibility that I have no idea of.
Anyway thats the story of my first memory 
Dalarius
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