Here's a truly heartwarming short 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" she'd received to the bank the
next day 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
construction 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
fuckin' sheet rock!"
