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Guest Agent of Oblivion
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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.

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

Guest Princess Leena
Posted

I remember when Czech used to be funny.

 

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

 

Such is life.

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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.

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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!
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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.

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

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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.

Guest Felonies!
Posted

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

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