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
again this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those "ass holes" at Home Depot ever deliver
the f-----g sheet rock..."
Kind of brings a tear to the eye.
Dave
