Her first paycheck!

Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond
formed between a little 5-year-old girl and some
construction workers that 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
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 couple of dollars. The little girl 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 pay check 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 the house again this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever deliver the f*&%$#@ sheet rock..."

Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye.