Apples are my favorite fruit and I like the idea of making a joke about it, but I would never pull the kind of prank I’m about to tell you about.
Judging by the comments, a lot of other people are also not fans of what this person did to their friends, but a lot of people also found it really funny.
This person wrote about the incident in the the “Ask the ***hole” Reddit page and asked people if this prank crossed a line.
AITA for pretending to be an “Appletarian” (eating only apple derived foods/drinks) for 3 weeks as a prank, causing my friends to have an intervention for me?
I got the idea a few weeks ago to prank my friends my pretending to be an “Appletarian”, meaning somebody who only eats food products that are derived from apples and would only drink apple juice or apple cider.
I told them them all that I had read on the internet that eating only apples was the healthiest thing for you. When I first told them they thought I was joking, but they underestimated how committed I would be to a joke. So, whenever in the presence of one of my friends (or friend-of-friends/coworkers/etc who knew them) I was very careful to only be seen eating apples or drinking apple juice/cider.
Apples whole, apples diced, apple sauce, the inside of an apple pie, baked apples, candy apples with the chocolate shaved off, etc.
Finally after about a week they bought that I had become an Appletarian. They started giving me information about how unhealthy it was to only eat apples, and growing increasingly exasperated by it. Some of them even got angry.
But I wanted to stick with the joke. Finally, after the end of 3 weeks, I walked into what I was told was a movie night but was actually an intervention for me.
They were all super concerned about my well being and had all sorts of information or whatever. Finally I started laughing hysterically. They were confused as hell so I told them I had been faking it the whole time and had been eating real meals outside their knowledge. I even took out some beef jerky from my pant pocket to prove it and munched it.
I thought they’d appreciate the joke but they were actually really annoyed. My girlfriend even broke up with me over this because a few days ago I had ruined our date night when I told the waiter I only wanted apples because I was an Appletarian and had “embarrassed her for a dumb joke”.
In my opinion the joke was solid and they should appreciate my commitment to the prank.
But, did I go too far?
This person didn’t feel he went too far at all.
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This Reddit user understands the value of pranks, but is not happy with the pain the OP caused.
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Read your audience — that’s this user’s message.
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This person tells the OP to think about how worried his loved ones must have been for his mental health.
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However, at least one more person didn’t think this guy was an a-hole.
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It was nice to see so many people in the comments advocating sympathy for friends instead of disregard for their feelings. I would have liked to see ideas in the comments for harmless alternative pranks.
Share a time with us when you pulled a prank and it failed.
