February 9, 2008

HEARTWARMING

THIS STORY WAS SENT TO ME BY A WONDERFUL FRIEND AND I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE IT WITH EACH OF YOU:

HER FIRST PAY CHECK

Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between Jenny -- 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. Jenny 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 5-year-old 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?'
Jenny replied, 'I will if those ass-holes at Home Depot ever deliver the ****ing sheet rock...'

Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye.

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