I dug a hole today.
Oooobbbbbviously my testosterone is working. That’s what guys do right, dig holes?
But seriously I’m proud of myself. Manual labor has always freaked me out, not because of the strength it takes or anything but because I don’t know much about handyman work. I told my boss I was hard up for cash right now so he hired me to come lay some pipe in his yard.
He’s installing an irrigation system and he already has a bunch of pipe laid across his yard in trenches but he has this bit of sidewalk coming off of his back porch with a need for some piping underneath. My job was to dig a hole under the sidewalk, which meant having a serrated PVC pipe and twisting that sonofabitch deeper and deeper until it popped out the other side. Attached a hose to the PVC pipe so it was basically a water drill. TONS of rock under the sidewalk so it took some real doing. But I did it :)
I finished the job, laid the pipe and installed wiring. He tipped me in more money and fresh oranges and beer. I haven’t had a beer since March. Took a shower and drank a beer, and it was the best damned shower beer I’ve ever had.
But honestly feeling manly didn’t have to do with digging, it had to do with being dependable. Dependable enough that I was given a job I had never done in my life, was told “you can do this,” and I fucking did it.
