Little Fishy
06-27-2005, 11:17 AM
Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond between a little 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
they take the two-dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next day
to start a savings account.
When the girl got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed 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 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 assholes at Home Depot ever
deliver the [censored] sheet rock . . . "
Kind of brings a tear to the eye.
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
they take the two-dollar "pay" she had received to the bank the next day
to start a savings account.
When the girl got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed 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 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 assholes at Home Depot ever
deliver the [censored] sheet rock . . . "
Kind of brings a tear to the eye.