Learning the Work Ethic Early


This is a heart warming story about the bond formed between a little girl and some 
construction workers. 

This makes you want to believe in the goodness of people and that there is hope for 
the human race.

A young family moved into a house next door to a vacant lot. One day a construction 
crew showed 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 started talking with the workers.

She hung around, and they eventually 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 this home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of 
admiration and suggested that they take the dollar 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 check at such a very young age.

The little girl proudly replied, "I worked all last week building a house."

"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 useless b * stards at Home Depot ever bring 
us the f * cking drywall."