little girls first paycheck

[fish]

> 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 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 more or less
> Gems-in-the-rough, 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 mother arrived at 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 this week, too?'
>
> The little girl replied, 'I will, if those assholes at Home Depot
> ever deliver the f--kin' Sheet Rock.'
>
> Kind of brings a tear to the eye - doesn't it?