[JonPop]

Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a little
girl and some construction workers:

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 check, made out in her name for ten dollars.

The little girl took this home to her mother who said all the
appropriate words of admiration and suggested that they take the ten
dollar "pay check" 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 replied, "I will if those assholes at Home Depot ever
deliver the fucking sheet rock . . ."