Subject: First Job
This is truly a heartwarming 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 that 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 5-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,
all of them gems-in-the-rough, 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 worked all last
week with a crew building a house."
"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 useless
sons-a-witches at Home Depot ever bring us any
drywall that's worth a sh**."
