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care to elaborate on it a little more? thanks.

• MichaelCrawford 11y ago
  Rock climbing is mostly safe, mostly methodical and meditative but there are times you have to think quickly or you will fall. It doesn't have to be deadly; you could learn it while on belay at a climbing gym. An electrical fault once set a payphone on fire in a dormitory where I was living. That was our only phone so it wasn't like we could call for help. Everyone stood around watching in terror as the flames grew. I grabbed a paper grocery sack out of a trash can, covered my hand with it then slapped my palm over the fire. Everyone said I was a hero. They didn't expect that of me because I have always been - particularly back then - rather shy and quiet. But to me it was the obvious thing to do.