A part of it is to stay focused on a stationary object.
We were in Moab, climbing rocks, and were at the Mill Creek parking area. I had my Astro van as one anchor (easy to tension), and 1" tubular webbing attached to a 1000 pound boulder. We were in the heart of fire ban season. A guy was 'wheelin' on the hillside next to the parking lot with a jacked up suburban, trying to get up a 20' hill. He ruptured his gas tank, about 30-40 feet uphill from the creek, pouring gas out on to the ground. He got out and lit it on fire.
The sherriff pulls up in the lot about 10 minutes later. He comes over to us. I say something to him asking if he was here about the fuel spill and fire. He said no, there was a report of people stealing a boulder. I looked at him like, "really". I'm going to drag a 1000 pound boulder for miles, right. Stupid people. I said no, just slacklining, see, like this. He realized we weren't stealing the boulder. He was much more interested in what the long haired guy with the music playing (at a very reasonable volume) had going on inside his open van door, not about the two bags of trash I'd picked up from the parking lot, not about the environmental contamination, not about the big blaze during fire ban.
I moved to Colorado not too long after that.
