Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a
little 5 year old girl and some construction workers that makes you
believe that we CAN make a difference when we give a child the gift
of our time.....
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 fucking sheet rock..."
Kind of brings a tear to the eye.
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jay fishbein
wallingford, ct
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