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Kids can be cruel, and once they start bullying someone, it often doesn’t end until they stand up for themselves.

What would you do if every year at summer camp, the school bullies would make you try the blackberries to see if they were ripe yet, even though you hated the taste of the unripe berries?

That is what happened to the kid in this story, so one year she pretended that the berries were delicious even though they weren’t nearly ripe yet. All the kids rushed in and grabbed berries for themselves, quickly realizing just how awful they were.

This is just too funny, and I’m glad she did it. Hopefully these kids learned their lesson. Read through the full story below and see what you think.

Tricked Elementary School Bullies into Eating Under Ripe Berries

I got singled out a lot as a kid because I was an easy target. Small, sensitive, nice, cried easily.

Bullying is terrible.

I was such an easy target that even bully victims bullied me. It usually didn’t bother me, in fact, most of the time I didn’t even see it as bullying because I was just that naive.

However, every summer, my mom sent me and my sister to vacation bible school. The church it was hosted at had a bunch of blackberry bushes in the back, and during VBS, we’d usually have a few activities outdoors.

This is just awful.

One year was cowboy themed, so we had lasso lessons back there. VBS was hosted usually right before and/or right as the berries were getting ripe.

Because no one wanted to eat underripe blackberries, I was nominated to test a few for ripeness. Every day a week, I’d be forced to eat a few berries that were often horribly bitter, and everyone would laugh at me when I had to spit it out. This happened every year since kindergarten, up until about middle school.

She should be an actor.

One year, I decided I’d had enough. That year, the berries were taking their sweet (ha) time to ripen, and by Friday they looked ripe. As usual, I was nominated to sample the berries.

Mustering up every ounce of courage and effort I had, I popped one in my mouth. My eyes widened in delight. “Wow! They’re so sweet! I don’t think they’ve ever been as good as this year!”

This is just too funny.

My stomach twisted as my throat convulsed. I wanted to spit onto the cement, the bitter taste still prominent on my tongue.

No one noticed, as they had already pushed past me to get their own berries. I was already wiping my tongue on my sleeve as they plucked handfulls of berries.

She must have been laughing so hard.

All at once, berries flew into mouths. All at once, berries were spat onto the sidewalk. A cacophony of tormented wails arose as they realised that no, no they weren’t ripe.

The berries weren’t sweet at all. They tasted awful.

Sweet, sweet revenge.

I was laughing at them just as hard as they would laugh at me, but harder.

As terrible as the berries tasted, they were indeed the sweetest I’d ever had, as they were sweetened with revenge.

This is a great little story of revenge. I have to assume that these other kids didn’t try to make her try the berries ever again.

Check out what the people in the comments have to say about this funny story.

Wow, this is really good to know.

They won’t make this mistake again.

This commenter did something similar but with donuts.

Well, this isn’t usually true.

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Unripe berries are very bitter.

Sometimes the simple revenge of a child is the most effective. You have to hope that it taught these bullies a lesson that they won’t soon forget.

It was mostly harmless, but at the very least, I doubt they will try to force her to try the berries again next year.