Would it be worth sitting down with the kid and his parents and explaining what you do and why you should be the one to do it? If the kid is interested you could point him to the right learning materials, or even apprentice him if that's something you could tolerate.
Unrelated, I have a question for you. There's a program on National Public Radio (NPR) here in the US called "This American Life," (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) hosted by a gentleman named Ira Glass. The show that was broadcast on Halloween was about "true" scary stories, and Glass said that he had been told the following: A bat can bite a sleeping person and not wake up the person or even leave a mark. So if you ever find a bat in a room with a sleeping person, you need to capture the bat and test it for rabies.
Now, even though Glass was dead serious about this, it dinged my urbanlegend-o-meter, so I thought I would ask you what you knew about this. Is there any truth to this?
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Unrelated, I have a question for you. There's a program on National Public Radio (NPR) here in the US called "This American Life," (http://www.thisamericanlife.org/) hosted by a gentleman named Ira Glass. The show that was broadcast on Halloween was about "true" scary stories, and Glass said that he had been told the following: A bat can bite a sleeping person and not wake up the person or even leave a mark. So if you ever find a bat in a room with a sleeping person, you need to capture the bat and test it for rabies.
Now, even though Glass was dead serious about this, it dinged my urbanlegend-o-meter, so I thought I would ask you what you knew about this. Is there any truth to this?