This is truly a heartwarming 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 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 started talking with the workers.

She hung around and 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 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

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 with the

story 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

all last week with a crew 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 sons-a-bitches at

Home Depot ever bring us any drywall that's worth a shit!"