grumpy
01-18-2007, 03:36 PM
>
> >>>Here's a truly heart-warming story about the bond
> formed between a
> >>>little 5
> >>>year old girl and some construction workers.
> 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 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 proudly
> >>>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
> 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 he house again this week,
> too?"
> >>>
> >>>The little girl replied, "I will if those
> assholes at Home Depot
> >>>ever
> >>>deliver the Fucking drywall".
>
>
>
> >>>Here's a truly heart-warming story about the bond
> formed between a
> >>>little 5
> >>>year old girl and some construction workers.
> 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 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 proudly
> >>>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
> 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 he house again this week,
> too?"
> >>>
> >>>The little girl replied, "I will if those
> assholes at Home Depot
> >>>ever
> >>>deliver the Fucking drywall".
>
>
>