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The Little Girl
Here's a heartwarming story about the bond formed
between a little girl and some construction workers.
This will make 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 came in and
began building a house on the empty lot. The family's
5-year-old daughter became interested 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
project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit
with them while they took 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, the men presented her
with a pay envelope which contained $2.00. The little
girl took this home to her mother who said all the
appropriate words of admiration and suggested that
they take the money she received to the bank to start
a savings account.
When they talked to the bank teller, the teller was
equally impressed and asked the little girl how she
had earned her very own pay check at such a young age.
The child 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 fuckin' sheet rock."
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