Yanno, sometimes I drop a joke in at another message forum I habit, just to try to keep things balanced. Usually its stuff my mother-in-law sends me in e-mails. This time, its something a fellow ex-AW type sent my wife (they used to fly the same arena, being RR dweebs
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culero
This is a nice story about the bond formed between a little girl and some construction workers that will make you believe that there is still hope for the younger generation...
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 4-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 more or less gems-in-the-rough, 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, of course always watching out for her safety.
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 paycheck 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 ***holes at Home Depot ever deliver the ****ing sheet rock."
