Here's a truly heart-warming 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 paycheque 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 fucking sheet rock"...
Kind of brings a tear to the eye.
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 paycheque 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 fucking sheet rock"...
Kind of brings a tear to the eye.
