Topic: Enterprizing youth
newtosatsuma's photo
Fri 10/12/07 03:57 PM
> > 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. 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 again this week, too?
> >
> >
> > The little girl replied, 'I will if those a$$holes at Home Depot ever
> > deliver the dam* sheet rock...'
> >
> >
> > Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye!!!
> >

MsTeddyBear2u's photo
Fri 10/12/07 06:52 PM
laugh