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SVTPerformance's Chain of Restaurants
Road Side Pub
Children say the darnedest things
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<blockquote data-quote="trplblacksnake" data-source="post: 2127004" data-attributes="member: 6780"><p>Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little</p><p>>girl and some construction workers that makes you believe that we can</p><p>>make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time...</p><p>></p><p>>A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a</p><p>>construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty lot.</p><p>></p><p>>The young family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all</p><p>>the activity going on next-door and spent much of each day observing the</p><p>>workers. Eventually the construction crew, all of them</p><p>>gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind of project mascot.</p><p>></p><p>>They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and</p><p>>lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her</p><p>>feel important.</p><p>></p><p>>At the end of the first week they even presented her with a pay envelope</p><p>>containing a couple of dollars. The little girl took this home to her</p><p>>mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration and suggested</p><p>>that they take the two-dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next</p><p>>day to start a savings account.</p><p>></p><p>>When they got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked</p><p>>the little girl how she had come by her very own paycheck at such a</p><p>>young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with</p><p>>the crew building the house next door to us."</p><p>></p><p>>"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the</p><p>>house again this week, too?"</p><p>></p><p>>The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever</p><p>>deliver the f---ing sheet rock..."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="trplblacksnake, post: 2127004, member: 6780"] 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..." [/QUOTE]
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