Here's a truly heartwarming story about the
bond formed between a little 5-year-old girl and some construction
workers that will make you believe that we all can make a difference
when we give a child the gift of our time.
A young family moved into a house, next 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 ten dollars.
The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested that she
take her ten dollars "pay" to the bank to start a savings account.
When the girl and her Mom 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 a real work crew building the new house next door to us."
"Oh 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 f~ckin' sheet rock..."
Kind of brings a tear to the eye - doesn't it?
