Although many of us have felt the sting of being excluded from a bonding activity, it hurts a lot more when the people shutting you out are your own family.
Worse yet, it often seems to happen for the most petty and superficial reasons if the relatives doing it even have the guts to give us a reason at all.
But while this can hurt when it happens after you've come of age, it stings even more in childhood and when you've just crossed the threshold of adulthood.
For some, this is a hard lesson to recognize who the people they once trusted showed themselves to be. But for others, the temptation to clap back with a move that's just as petty is a strong one.
And when one teen did just that, her execution and the reason behind it made it hard for people to argue with her.
