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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 six year old daughter naturally
took an interest in the activity going on next door
and started talking with the workers. She hung
around and eventually the construction crew - gems
in the rough all of them - 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 dollar. The little
girl took it home to her mother who said all the
appropriate words of admiration and suggested that
they take the 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 with the story and asked the little girl
how she had come by her very own pay cheque at such
a young age. The little girl proudly replied, "I've
been working with a construction crew building a
house."
"My goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will
you be working on the house again this week too?"
"I will if those useless bas-tards at Home Depot
ever bring us the f-ing' drywall," replied the little girl.
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