Teen Shoka (Cactus Fruit)

My uncle has a farm where you can literally get lost. I know this because I got lost yesterday on it. I was in a state of panic because my family has ways of pranking each other. I was pretty sure that they left me behind. It was getting dark and the rows and rows of olive trees looked the same and so I wandered. I also had little hair-like thorns all over my hands and face and somehow on my tongue. I'm the silly bum who thought you could bite them off.

We were so careful when we pulled the thorny fruit off of its large cactus. Poking it with a stick and keeping a distance from the large thorns that protruded from the plants we thought we would have a nice little treat. So much for that idea. Apparently the little teeny tiny thorns aren't really visible to the human eye until they have gotten all over your clothes. 

Growing up in the midwest I definitely got to spend time on some farms and get lost picking apples at Stephenson's Apple Orchard. But this is a first. I actually did the thing you see in cartoons and old westerns. I got beat by a plant. I green thorny cactus plant that was angry I stole its fruit.

My family didn't leave me. They were waiting by the car and laughed hysterically at my painful mistake and the fact that I got lost. I guess it was a funny sight to see. Victoriously I showed off the fruit wrapped in paper. At the moment I was sure I wanted to eat it just to prove that I won. But, I probably won't even look at it again. Now that I have finally gotten all of the thorns out of my fingertips I am a little fearful of getting hurt again.