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An oldie, but always a chuckle...

A 5 Year Old's 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 big
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
began to build a house on the empty lot. The family's 5-year-old daughter naturally took
an interest in the goings-on 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 during 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 shltheads at Home Depot ever deliver the f__kin' sheet rock."

Kind of brings a tear to the eye - doesn't it?
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