A 5 year old’s first job…
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> 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.
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> A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot. One day, a
> construction crew began to build a house on the empty lot. The young
> family’s 5-year-old daughter naturally took an interest in the goings-on 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 during 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.’ ‘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 f _ ckin’ sheet rock.’
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> Kind of brings a tear to the eye - doesn’t it?
