The best part about the story you’re about to read is that everyone involved is in elementary school. These are kids who are learning real life lessons that will hopefully make them better people later in life.

The story involves stealing, lying, and a kid who is really good at sales even though he’s only in 2nd grade.

I hope that the kids who messed up learned from their mistakes and grew up to be better adults because of what happened here.

Let’s read all about it.

They messed with my tree fort. I rebooted the local economy and left them out of it.

Background Info:

About eight years ago, at my elementary school, there was a small forest in the back.

For years kids had been building forts out of sticks branches, and old lumber and pottery that the school chucked down there (normally this would have been thrown away but they realized that kids were learning and having fun so they put potentially useful materials down there).

By and large, it was a really cool place for a 2nd grader to be.

There was even an economy based off granite chunks and broken glass shards we found on the ground (These could be used to buy wood, pottery, branches, and other good building materials).

OP was building a fort with his friends.

The Story:

Recently my friends and I had been working on a fort and it was actually looking pretty good (by second grade standards).

We stayed after school on Friday and finished the exterior, excited to come back on Monday and build some “furniture” (really just a couple logs we stacked).

We also wrote carved our initials into pieces of it with a sharp rock (this is important later).

Uh-oh!

When Monday finally came around, we charged out of class as soon as the bell rung and ran down to our fort…

Only to find it gone and in its place a piece of paper with “losers don’t deserve forts” written on it.

I lost of piece of my innocence that day.

The Revenge:

They did some investigating.

Everyone who I built the fort with was irate so we spent the rest of that break period asking people about the incident and looking around.

Eventually one of my friends called us all over to a fort built by some third graders and wasted no time showing us his engraved initials.

We had found them.

They knew what they couldn’t and didn’t want to do.

At the time our granite/glass supply was fairly low so we couldn’t just buy back our stuff.

Also, we didn’t want to.

We would rather lose our stuff than pay the jerks who took it.

These guys were well known jerks even before this so most of the fort community (including us) didn’t like them already.

He ruled out another idea.

I thought of telling a teacher but bad looking initials was not a very strong proof that the stuff was ours.

Even if they did believe us, they wouldn’t actually punish the third graders who did it.

If we were lucky we might get our stuff back but nothing more would happen (Partially due to the fact that they were just third graders and were apparently still “learning how to be kind” and partially due to the fact that my school gave super light punishments).

Then, he had an idea he thought would work.

The plan came to fruition as I was walking to the car from the baseball field after practice.

The sidewalk was full of these really cool looking blue rocks and I was thinking I could use them as currency.

I came back to school and showed my friends some of the rocks I had collected.

They all thought the rocks looked great and one of them thought we could use them to get our stuff back from the third graders.

His friend knew just what to do.

We all thought this was a great idea so I hand the friend that suggested it a few rocks.

He walks up to the jerks’ fort and made those rocks seem like solid gold. (this guy is honestly going to be the world greatest salesman).

He sold the actual heck out those rocks.

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Within minutes we had our supplies back and most of the wood from their fort.

But they weren’t done with their revenge.

The third graders were like “my preeeciioouus” over a few blue rocks that I basically had thousands more of.

Over the next few days we bought so much stuff with those rocks that literally every fort group except the jerks had about 50 (obviously we kept the lions share and had a couple hundred buried below our fort, which was under construction).

We watched with smug grins, as those third graders tried to buy stuff with the now worthless rocks and were turned away because of their comparative poverty.

There’s one last part of the revenge.

To round off this revenge we told everyone in a fort group what happened and how they stole our stuff (most people had seen their fort grow over the weekend so they believed our explanation, also everything is just way more believable as a second grader) so if they tried that kind of stuff again, the entire fort community would retaliate.

Eventually they just stopped coming to the forest and hung out on the field instead.

Lesson here: don’t mess with other people’s stuff.

There were a lot of good lessons learned here for elementary school kids. It’s better to learn these lessons when you’re young than later in life. Stealing is wrong. Fight back for what’s yours. Supply and demand. These are life lessons.

Let’s see how Reddit responded.

This person thinks it’s an amazing revenge story for elementary school kids.

Another person calls the revenge “cute.”

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This person is impressed.

A teacher weighs in.

It’s amazing how creative kids can be when they’re given the opportunity. I love how creative the kids were with their forts, their bartering system, and their revenge. I also love that they managed to work out their problems without tattling to adults.