This kind of level-headed consideration is why he was able to come to you with his concerns after, so good job there. I think you’re on the right track with an open conversation about coming to you with these kinds of things before they happen. “I’m concerned about you keeping safe so could we please talk something like this through before you do it next time?” Would be the line I’d use but you obviously know your son better than me so YMMV. All in all I’m glad things worked out okay and hopefully this’ll be a learning experience for mindfulness.

Time will put your enemies in the ground.

Probably cilantro.

Wait that’s a thing?!

No, but I don’t wait for the beeping to stop.

“Bug” is a scientific word that refers to members of the sub-order Heteroptera. See assassin bugs, leaf-footed bugs, etc.

But yeah language is fluid and most people call any old arthropod a bug.

I’ve never met anyone who doesn’t pick up a stick or a rock during a hike. We’ve been gathering our own tools for hundreds of thousands of years and that curiosity and ingenuity is bone deep for us as a species.