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This is a little story I wrote to illustrate the idiom ‘A Taste of your own Medicine’.
It was Monday morning at Acorns boarding school. Everyone was raving about the wonderful food, fun and music they had enjoyed at Heather’s weekend birthday party at the Glitz Hotel. Well, everyone except Molly. Heather claimed that the reason she had excluded Molly was because a farm girl like her would feel out of place at a luxury hotel like the Glitz. So, Molly had spent a sad, lonely weekend at the hostel.
October arrived. It was Molly’s birthday month. Her parents had given her permission to invite some friends to spend the weekend at the farm. Molly invited the whole class. To her surprise, almost everyone accepted. Only Heather declined. On Friday afternoon, Heather was surprised to see all the other girls packing their bags for a weekend at the farm. She couldn’t understand why anyone would want to spend a weekend milking cows and sloshing around in a pig pen.
Late Sunday evening, the girls arrived back at the dormitory, excitedly talking about elephants, lions and rhinoceroses. It turned out that Molly’s family farm was not the sort that had pigs, cows and chickens. It was a game farm with a luxury lodge on it. Heather had spent a lonely weekend at the hostel and missed out on an experience of a lifetime. She now knew how it felt to be excluded.
Heather had accidentally given herself a taste of her own medicine.
Idiom
A taste of your own medicine: receiving the same unpleasant treatment you previously gave to another.
game
wild animals that are hunted by humans for meat, fur, horns or ivory (elephant tusks)
game farm
a large, enclosed piece of land where game animals are kept and bred in a natural environment for purposes such as meat production, ecotourism and trophy hunting.
game reserve
a large, enclosed piece of land where game animals live in a natural environment for protection and the conservation of species. It is illegal (against the law) to hunt in a game reserve.
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