Cliff wrote:


Here's a heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little
girl and some construction workers. This will make 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 came in and began building a house on the empty
lot. The family's 5-year-old daughter became interested 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 took 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, the men presented her with a pay
envelope which contained $2.00. The little girl took this home to her
mother, who said all the appropriate words of admiration, and
suggested that they take the money she received to the bank to start a
savings account.

When they talked to the bank teller, she was equally impressed and
asked the little girl how she had earned her very own pay check at
such a young age.

The child 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 the house again this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever
deliver the ****in' sheet rock."

I was expecting - I'm not sure what - probably something nasty - but while I
never got to rolling on the proverbial floor, where I have been maybe twice
in my entire life (and it hurt), that had me laughing out loud, with actual
tears streaming down my face.

Good one.