Digging Up Dirt

"Selling Dirt" or "Digging up Dirt"
By Dave Morris , Vishwanand V. Shetti

Bobby and Sally, two grown ups or young adults, sell dirt underneath a playground. There are no customers but they seem content about what they do. We see flashes of their daily routines for work. Bobby and Sally are both wanting more than a professional relationship. Bobby asks Sally if she wants to go take a break together. On the swings, their chemistry together is very apparent, but as they become close, they're seems to be a barrier they can't cross.

When they return, there are some cups of dirt missing from the stand. A map shows only one place left to dig dirt. They enjoy the rest of the day a lot closer as a couple, and go dig more dirt.

Later, as they're about to leave, a monstrous robber comes to rob the store of the dirt, watergun in hand. He steals the dirt they just dug up. He holds to gun to Sally's head and tells Bobby to go dig more dirt. The robber mentions a secret place on the map to get more dirt. After he goes, the robber and Sally have a deeper conversation revealing dark secrets about her past involving that place on the map. When Sally was a little girl, a boy named Timmy used to put dirt in Sally's hair (because he liked her). Sally took him into the forest and tied him up, leaving him there for several hours. When she returned, Timmy went missing.

Bobby returns with the dirt. The robber tells Sally to pour the dirt on Bobby. She is hesitant but has no choice. As she does his, secrets of Bobby's are revealed. He saw Sally take Timmy into the forest. After she left, Bobby set Timmy on fire, at the same spot Bobby got the dirt. The robber mysteriously vanishes taking all the dirt, leaving only the watergun there. Sally takes the gun, and painfully cleanses Bobby of the dirt.

The next morning, everything is quiet and the store is closed. Bobby and Sally are sitting on the swings again looking ahead to doing something besides digging and selling dirt.