Tease; Make fun of or attempt to provoke (a person or animal) in a playful way

Growing up with two older brothers has made me rather sensitive, defensive and argumentative... not selling myself here right am I?!


The people who are most aware of this, and thus use it to their advantage, are my WONDERFUL school friends.

Perhaps the most notorious of incidents came at my friend Lily's 18th (.....may have been 17th?!) birthday dinner. We were in a noodle/ Japanese style restaurant in Hampton Wick all deciding what to have etc etc etc. I had seen two dishes - one of which i had LOLed at and thought "Who in their right mind would order that??!!" the other I had chosen to order.
GUESS which dish I pointed at (unintentionally of course) when the waitress took my order. WHAT A TWAT. 
The dish I had ordered, contained one MASSIVE fishy ingredient that in its whole natural form I am not a fan of. SQUID. (Calamari rings are acceptable)

I actually yelped out loud when I saw the whole baby squid floating around in my dinner.
It may as well have been dancing around in front of me.......... dun dun duuuuuuuuuun

VOM!!!!!!!!!!!!




Anyway, believing that I was ACTUALLY going to spew - I legged it to the bathroom.
A few minutes later one of my more sympathetic friends came in and offered to swap dishes with me.

SO, I decided to return to the table, (my very kind friend had switched the dishes already so that I did not have to face the grotesque squid again). I sat down.

Now.... having spent about 6 years at school with my friends I knew them pretty well by this point. I knew, I just KNEW I wasn't getting off this lightly. SO I searched around my new dinner for a while, with every expectation of finding the baby squid hiding under a pile of rice somewhere.

NOPE, nothing. Exxxxxcellent - perhaps they're not as horrid (or opportunist) as I suspected.


With a sigh of relief I lifted my glass of water to my lips and .... began to drink. (Just describing this moment is bringing tears of hideous recollection to my eyes). NEVER TRUST MY FRIENDS.
As I started sipping my water I began to catch every.single.one of my friends' eyes staring at me, jaws dropping to the floor.

YES. the baby squid had been placed IN MY RUDDY WATERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!! The white tentacle infested beast of fishy grimness was bouncing around in my only source of hydration!!!!!!!!!!!

I feel like I blanked out at this point.