Kyobanim
02-12-2007, 13:16
A young family moved into a house, next 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 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. 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 fuckin' sheet rock..."
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 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. 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 fuckin' sheet rock..."