Here’s a truly heartwarming story about
the bond formed between a little
5-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 turned up to start building a house on the
empty lot.
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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..
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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 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.
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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 the new house next door to us..’
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‘Oh my goodness gracious,’ said the teller, ‘and will you be working on the
house again this week, too?’
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The little girl replied, ‘I will, if those assholes at Lowe’s ever deliver the fuckin’ sheet rock…
Kind of brings a tear to the eye – doesn’t it?
