little girl and some construction workers. It makes you want to believe in
the goodness of people and that there is hope for the human race.
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 started talking with the workers.
She hung around and 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 dollar.
The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the
appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the 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 with the
story and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own paycheck
at such a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I worked all last week
with a crew building a house." 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! useless b@stards at Home Depot ever bring us the f*cking drywall."
Brings tears to your eyes, doesn't it?
