HER FIRST PAY CHECK
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 crewbuilding 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 a**holes at
Home Depot ever deliver the damned sheet rock..."
Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye.
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 crewbuilding 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 a**holes at
Home Depot ever deliver the damned sheet rock..."
Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye.
PRECIOUS!!! Gotta love kids!
