Be careful who you expose young ones to............
Her first job
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 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 as*holes at Lowe's ever deliver the fu*kin' sheet rock..."
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