Freeze Stat
07-15-2005, 09:49 PM
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 a$$holes ever deliver the f*^king sheet rock..."
formed between a little 5 year old girl and some
construction workers that makes you believe that we
CAN make a difference when we give a child the gift of
our time...
A young family moved into a house, next door to a
vacant lot. One day a construction crew turned up to
start building a house on the empty lot. The young
family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took an
interest in all the activity going on next door and
spent much of each day
observing the workers.
Eventually the construction crew, all of them
gems-in-the-rough, more or less adopted her as a kind
of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit
with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and
gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her
feel important. At the end of the first week they even
presented her with a pay envelope containing a couple
of dollars. The little girl took this home to her
mother who said all the appropriate words of
admiration and suggested that they take the two dollar
"pay" she had received to the bank the next day to
start a savings account.
When they got to the bank, the teller was equally
impressed and asked the little girl how she had come
by her very own pay check at such a young age. The
little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with
the crew building the house next door to us."
"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you
be working on the house again this week, too?"
The little girl replied, "I will if those a$$holes ever deliver the f*^king sheet rock..."