Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little
>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 paycheck 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 again this week, too?"
>
>The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever
>deliver the f---ing sheet rock..."
>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 paycheck 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 again this week, too?"
>
>The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever
>deliver the f---ing sheet rock..."
