The Construction Workette |
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 answered, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever
deliver the fucking sheet rock."
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