7-up hero

7-up hero

I was in a youth group/dad and son thing at the Y called Indian Guides at around age 8-9. Indian guides was something like a liberal answer to the boy scouts.

A bunch of other dudes from my school were also in it, some of my best friends actually. We went to a campground at a lake (Lake Cachuma?)for a weekend trip. It was a great weekend and I have other memories of it as well, but onto the meat of the story.

Our group of school friends and some other kids we met went off wandering. We ended up trying to climb down a sheer wall overhanging the lake, there was a ledge to walk on and the trail was above. One of our friends sat this one out as he was a bit overweight and didn't think he could do it, he stayed above on the trail.

The rest of us shimmied along the ledge until we got to the point we couldn't go any further, we then discovered we also couldn't get back.

Stuck there clinging to the rock face we started to panic and thought we might die, or at least that some of us would and that it was gonna really suck.

Our hope. Our savior, was our friend above on the trail.

He was holding the sodas though, unopened cold sodas that we brought.

There was a moment then where he had to decide between the sodas and saving us. He looked at the 7-up can in his hand, he looked at us. He had a tough decision to make. Next he yelled out either "FUCK IT!!!" or just "AUUUGGGHHHHH!!!" with huge drama and emotion, and launched a 7-up can into the lake.
He then reached down and proceeded to pull us out of mortal danger.

He could have just put the sodas down.

Also, I clearly remember turning around and seeing the 7-up can splash in the lake behind me and hearing the 'bloop' splash sound.

Thank you 7-up hero!