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 patch of ground.
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 'diamonds-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 tea 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 packet containing ten pounds. The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested that she take her ten pounds 'pay' she'd received to the bank the next day to start a savings account.
When the girl and her mum 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.'
'Oh my goodness gracious,' said the teller, 'and will you be working on the house again this week, too?'
The little girl thought for a second and then replied, 'I will, if those a$$holes at Jewson's ever deliver the f*&ckin' plasterboard...'
Nice one Ferb! ;D ;D ;D
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=O =O Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings.....
That's from Bill Bryson's "The Lost Continent"....With a few details changed...
It was half a crown, rather than ten quid....And the little girl was a tiny bit more 'robust' in her language...
It was "That's if the ****ing bricks turn up, " in the book !
Still damn funny tho'..... ;D ;D ;D ;D
Cheers - Phil.