Truly a heart-warming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some
construction workers. This makes you want to believe in the goodness of people
and believe there is hope for the human race.
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 6-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in all the
activity going on next-door and started talking with the workers. She hung
around and eventually the construction crew, gems-in-the-rough, all of them,
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 dollar. The little girl took this home to her mother who said all
the appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the 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 with the story 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’ve been working with a crew building a house all
week.” “My goodness gracious,” said the teller, “and will you be working on the
house again this week too?”
She replied, “I will if those useless sons of bitches at the lumber yard ever
bring us any drywall that’s worth a **** .”