Editor's note: welcome to Inside Joke, a regular comedy column written by improv comedian and writer Britney Barber. Enjoy!

Martin Mason was a normal man with a normal life in a normal town. On the edge of that normal town was a normal field, and at the edge of that field was a hole. Next to the hole was a large sign that said “Tiny Hole.” But there was nothing tiny about this hole; it was massive and bottomless, which made the apparently normal sign just as abnormal as the not-so-normal hole.  

One fateful evening, Martin Mason lost track of time during a stroll and ended up walking in pitch black by the dark hole at the edge of the dark field. Despite treading softly, Martin’s normal-sized foot found the not-so-tiny-hole, and the rest of him followed.

After falling long enough to prove that the gargantuan hole really did, in fact, have no bottom, Martin fell out of the big blue sky and landed on the tiny roof of a tiny muffler shop on a tiny street in a tiny water town. Innately knowing his options in a tiny town would be teeny, there he decided to stay; his huge arms forever extended, ready to catch anyone else from the giant town who finds themselves falling into the “Tiny Hole.”

DID YOU KNOW THAT THERE IS NOT ONE BUT MANY MUFFLER MEN?

READ ABOUT THEM HERE.

Britney Barber is a writer and professional improv comedian, who lives in downtown Everett with her wife and four dogs. She grew up in the Philadelphia area and has a degree in Mass Communication and Media Writing from La Salle University. She currently teaches and performs for Jet City Improv in Seattle, writes screenplays, and produces monthly improv comedy shows at Cafe Zippy and the Historic Everett Theatre.