Ryssen wrote...
Same kid 20 years later; "You know a eagle once tried stealing me when I was a kid. I still got the scar left."
Chick he's picking up; "Wow, you must have been scared."
"Not even a bit."
"Cool~"
That was my same thought. 'That kid's got a free pass to cool for the rest of his life'
or he winds up with severe ornithophobia and completes therapy at 35.