I feel like I totally get the whole thing.
Did you get your brother back for being a &^%&* um insensitive?
In the evenings when we played basketball outside, under our utility light (on a telephone pole) bats would swoop down after the ball. And mom would warn me about those shots... I was very wary of bats.
On a camping trip I think I had eaten a candy bar before going to sleep and I guess a mouse smelled the candy bar on my hand and bit me. We were sleeping in a shallow cave near a stream in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He came back the next night... he was a jumper, lol. Never got the rabies shots... rather die I guess, idk... young and stupid.