On 9/18/2013 8:13 PM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 09/18/13 06:40 pm, Red Green wrote:

Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a
little four 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 showed up to start building a house on the empty
lot. The young family's 4-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 their project mascot. They chatted with
her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks,
and gave her 20 little jobs to do here and there to make her feel
important.

At the end of the first week, they 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 mom got to 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 a new house
next door to us." "Oh 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 ****in' drywall..."

Kind of brings a tear to your eye.


Weak point of the post - a real constuction crew does not order drywall
from the Borg.

I know that so many people here say, "A real whatever does not buy
from HD, Lowe's, etc.," so why do I keep seeing trucks belonging to
construction companies, plumbers, electricians, etc., in their parking
lots?

More important, what about all the insurance and liability issues in
allowing a child on a construction site.

Perce

The big box stores have a dedicated commercial checkout and service area
for contractors. It must be consumers posing as contractors who
use those registers. ^_^

TDD