A young family moved into a house, next door to a vacant lot. One
day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty
lot.
The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in
all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day
observing the workers.
Eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough,
more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with
her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and
gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay
envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to
her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and
suggested that they take the two dollar "pay" she had received to the bank
the next day to start a savings account.
When they got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and
asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a
young age.
The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew
building the house next door to us."
"My goodness gracious", said the teller, "and will you be working on
the house this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot
ever deliver the ****ing sheet rock..."
Kind of brings a tear to the eyes?
day a construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty
lot.
The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in
all the activity going on next door and spent much of each day
observing the workers.
Eventually the construction crew, all of them gems-in-the-rough,
more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with
her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and
gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important.
At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay
envelope containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to
her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and
suggested that they take the two dollar "pay" she had received to the bank
the next day to start a savings account.
When they got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and
asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a
young age.
The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with the crew
building the house next door to us."
"My goodness gracious", said the teller, "and will you be working on
the house this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot
ever deliver the ****ing sheet rock..."
Kind of brings a tear to the eyes?
