This is a great story, from twitter. I know. Me too. But for real tho - it's great

[The Polack MSgt]

Thinking about biological collections lately I'm reminded of the time that somehow at age 4, I got a personal tour of the @UCBerkeley entomology collection (Essig?) from a kind scientist (anybody know who?!). Asked my parents how on earth THAT happened, and it turns out...🤯

https://unrollthread.com/t/1483177665892737025/

[TygrBright]

1. Oh, that's a wonderful story! Thanks for sharing. n/t

[Scrivener7]

2. It IS great!

[NQAS]

3. Agreed. nice story.

Sometimes you never know the impact you might on the lives of others. I hope she finds out who the tour guide was.

[wcmagumba]

4. Great great story...

Thanks for sharing. I had buggy aspirations myself as a grade school kid and remember using glass jars to make bug traps. Did not pursue that field, kind of wish I had, worked with computers and graphics instead. I had a friend in later years who was pursuing a PHD in ornithology at a large university nearby with quite a natural history museum and got to take a tour behind the scenes. Great fun...

[3catwoman3]

5. Wonderful story. You never know what very small moment may end up influencing...

...the course of someone's life.

Over my 45 year's as a peds nurse practitioner, I would frequently have little kids listen to their own hearts, or to mine, or look in my ears before I looked in theirs. A fair few were quite intrigued.