This is SO sweet. I hope it warms your heart as it did mine.
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 five-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 assholes at Home
Depot ever deliver the fucking sheet rock.."
