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>be roughly 9 years old
>playing pokemon crystal after beating Gold and Silver
>was never aware of shiny pokemon except for red garyados, figured it just stayed red because of the forced evolution of Magikarps
>go up the route with the daycare on the way to get my ass handed to me by whitney
>wild drowzee appears
>IT IS FUCKING PURPLE HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WHAT ARE THOSE STAR THINGS
>wasted every single pokeball I had to try and catch it
>never caught it
>none of my friends believed what happened as they weren't aware of shiny pokemon either
Felt fucking awful man. I didn't realize how unlucky I was until some years later when I started reading about shinys on serebii.
