Digging a hole.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

When I was about six years old growing up in a working class home on the Indiana countryside, I didn't have any Nintendo or MTV. What I had was a small spade. One fine summer day, I went out to the old vegetable garden that my mother kept and started digging a hole. She hadn't planted that season, so it was just bare dirt.

 

I only made it about a foot down that day, considering my youth and lack of size. It was about 3 feet in diameter. Not too bad for a day's work. Over the course of the summer, I worked tirelessly on this hole. Mom and dad liked it because I got plenty of exercise and sunshine, and didn't drive them crazy in the house all the time, what with the recent birth of my baby brother which was keeping them pretty busy.

 

By late July, it was a good six or seven feet deep and at least five feet in diameter. That's a pretty big fuckin' hole if you really think about it. Especially when considering it was excavated by a child. I had to climb up the sides by digging my fingers and toes into the dirt walls by that point to get out. I tied a bucket to a rope to haul out the dirt, so it was slow going.

 

I found a few arrowheads and some neat pieces of limestone, but that wasn't my motivation. In fact, I didn't really have any motivation. I wasn't trying to get to China or find buried treasure or anything, I was just diggin' a hole.

 

Chocolate socket; you are my new hole.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

That was beautiful, Gene.

[BUTT 0]

Profound.

[Guest Felonies!]

Arrowheads. Gotta love 'em.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I bet I could hit bedrock if I tried again now, but it wouldn't have that sense of childhood innocence.

[Guest Princess Leena]

I remember when Czech used to be funny.

 

Now he hangs around with this crap and he equally blows.

 

Such is life.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

I dunno i'd be kinda psyched if I fuond ancient arrowheads. Indians (of the domestic kind) leave them?

 

Imagine it, those arrowheads coulda been owned by an Indian who raped the 14 y/o daughter of the tribe chief. Imagine that.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

You can find arrowheads all over the place around here without even having to dig a hole..

[Lord of The Curry 0]

Thank you so much.

[Guest Paul]

Kids always find "arrowheads". Dumb little fucks see a triangular stone, right away, it's a fuckin' arrowhead.

 

You all remind me of those kids.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Kids always find "arrowheads". Dumb little fucks see a triangular stone, right away, it's a fuckin' arrowhead.

 

You all remind me of those kids.

 

What else could it be? A prehistoric guitar pick?

[Guest Felonies!]

Haha.

[Guest Paul]

I dunno...maybe a broken rock?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

I dunno...maybe a broken rock?

 

rocks just dont break into triangular shapes...

 

what about the indian equivalent of paper footballs? Im sure theyd all gather round the teepee and play rock football with their spare time..

[Guest Paul]

Anything can break a rock down over time. It's a rock.

 

I'm not saying arrowheads don't exist...I'm saying 80% of the kids who find them, only found rocks.

[Guest Felonies!]

I remember when Czech used to be funny.

 

Now he hangs around with this crap and he equally blows.

 

Such is life.

Wrong. They don't let me hang around with them. You're just sore about the kids thing.

 

You all remind me of those kids.

Don't go down this road.

[Guest Paul]

It's too late for me...

[BUTT 0]

Paul has a kid, I'm sure he doesn't hold kids in low enough regard to use the term as an insult the way Leena does. Be logical, Czech Republic.

[In Credible 0]

Digging the giant hole reminds me of the movie Frailty, which oddly enough was on yesterday.

[Black Lushus 0]

look at Marvin, all jokin and shit

[benn 0]

Digging a hole for no reason reminds me of the movie The Castle, but I doubt any non-Australians would have seen it.

[Guest Paul]

Ever dig holes in the sand?

[River City Rocker 0]

I did the same thing during one dull Indiana summer.

 

Except my hole wasn't any more than a foot deep, and I ended up filling it in before the new school year started...after I had buried some discarded action figures in it.

 

This was in the day that we simply threw out or gave away old unwanted toys without realizing "Hey, those could be really valuable one day!" Those figures are probably still where I buried them, even if I haven't lived at that house for over sixteen years.

 

For the record, my parents didn't like the hole, as they wanted me to "do something" that summer and not sit around doing nothing.

[dubq 0]

I bet I could hit bedrock if I tried again now, but it wouldn't have that sense of childhood innocence.

 

[PLAGIARISM! 0]

We're all digging a hole. Every day.

[snuffbox 0]

Woah.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

look at Marvin, all jokin and shit

 

I was in a good mood last night.

[bobobrazil1984 0]

I've decided this story needs more rape.

[Art Sandusky 0]

^^^ Well all right then.

 

I dug a hole in the backyard one summer when I was nine, but I was digging for dinosaur bones. When I started hitting hard-ass clay I got frustrated and stopped.

[Guest Felonies!]

I nver dug any signifcant holes. I did built a castle out of sugar cubs once, though.