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 ass holes at Home Depot ever
deliver the fuc king sheet rock!"
Kind of brings a tear to the eye....
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 ass holes at Home Depot ever
deliver the fuc king sheet rock!"
Kind of brings a tear to the eye....
we been hot and humid here, or warm and humid.
