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Although I was completely safe sitting in my portaledge, I was alone, scared and sitting with a tangled rope. Not wanting to do what I had to do, I decided to hang my head, sulk and stare out into space and eat a can of fruit.

A few hundred feet below me there was a road. As I was hanging my head and eating my can of fruit, I watched a car drive up and park near the base of the climb. The two passengers jumped out of their car, saw me on the wall and said "Woww, look at that, there is a climber up there… Heyy… Lets see what he is doing."

Quickly, they grabbed their binoculars and started looking to see what I was doing. I could not actually hear their conversations, but it was easy to imagine what they might be saying. "Well; he is just hanging his head and eating a can of fruit!" the first onlooker said. "No, he has to be doing something!" the other guy says as he grabs the binoculars and takes a look at me. "Aww… you are right! He is just hanging his head and eating a can of fruit." Waving their arms in disgust, they climbed back in the car and drove away.

I was not very exciting to watch.

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