[Old Fart]

> Here's a truly heartwarming story I heard recently, that will make you
> believe that we all can make a difference when we give a child the gift
> of our time. It's about the bond formed between a little 5 year old
> girl and some construction workers.
>
> A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot. One day, a
> construction crew began to build a house on the empty lot. The young
> family's 5 year old daughter naturally took an interest in the
> goings-on 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
> during 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?'
>
> And here is her answer, which brought a tear to my eye:
>
> The little girl replied, 'I will, if those assholes at Home Depot ever
> deliver the ****in' drywall ...'