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the hole-y grail of attention

when dudes swarm to empty spaces

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Jim Dalling
Aug 16, 2023
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Attracting a group of men is fairly easy.

Purchase a new car and inevitably you’ll be surrounded by dudes well versed in the latest features.

Purchase a truck?

The crowd gets even larger.

Better yet?

Rent a piece of equipment like an excavator or a skid steer. Leave it in front of the house for a while.

A crowd will form.

If you do not want random digging gear in front of your home, order a load of gravel, top soil or lumber. The dudes will start showing up like gophers or those infuriating moles from the whack-a-mole game.

Recently, I found a new way to gather a crowd of men.

I dug a hole.

It was nice hole, a good hole, a deep hole.

The hole I dug?

It was a hell of a hole.

Hell, I dug this hole so deep I passed Satan on the way down and Beelzebub as I started to climb out the other side.

Dudes seem invariably attracted to holes.

We love holes.

Holes, though filled with nothing, are filled with opportunities:

They provide opportunities for questions:

Whatcha doin that for?

They provide openings for a…

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