Tug at the Heart

[SquirrelDip]

This cam to my email - an oldie but still pretty good all the same...


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 si t 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 this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will if those ******** at Home Depot ever deliver the ******* sheet rock..."

[BJ_M]

they wouldn't be doing any drywall in a week after starting - but the story is funny as hell anyway

[gadgetguy]

The "end of the first week" refers to the first week after "adopting" her, which didn't start until "eventually" so it wasn't necessarily the first week of construction.

[ZAPPER]

Well, after the little girls outburst in the bank, her mother said "Go get me a switch" and the little girl said "No way, I ain't no electrician!"

[SquirrelDip]

Well, after the little girls outburst in the bank, her mother said "Go get me a switch" and the little girl said "No way, I ain't no electrician!"

Close... "No way, do I look like a ******* electrician to you!?"

[ZAPPER]

We need a "Joke Forum" Anyone want to bring it up to the "Big Guy"?

[Will Hay]

Great joke, never heard it before!
Everyone in Yorkshire will have come next weekend.
Rob