Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a
little
5-year-old girl and some construction workers that make 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 li ttle 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 damn sheet rock..."
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EternalFlame
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Jun 29 @ 12:49PM
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OMG classic!
Reminds me of a story about my nephew...
My brother, a construction worker, and his son were enjoying a male bonding moment, laying on the floor, heads resting on the entertainment center, listening to music. The door to the entertainment center was swinging open now and then, and kept hitting my nephew, then about 3-years-old, in the back. Laying there together, my nephew looked at my brother quite seriously and said, "Dad?"
My brother, expecting a profound comment from my nephew, replied, "Yes, son?"
Still looking very somber, my nephew said matter-of-factly, "I gotta get up and close the f*cking door."
Out of the mouths of babes...and the children of construction workers
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etobin45
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Jul 3 @ 1:27PM
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