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. One day a construction crew turned up
to start building a house on the vacant lot next door. 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 couplee 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 ****** sheet rock."
Kind of brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it?
Keep smiling
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. One day a construction crew turned up
to start building a house on the vacant lot next door. 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 couplee 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 ****** sheet rock."
Kind of brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it?
Keep smiling
