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 6 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 - gems in the rough - all of them
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 paycheck at such a young age.
The little girl proudly replied, "I've been working with a crew building a
house all week".
"My goodness gracious", said the teller, "And will you be working on the
house again this week too?"
"I will if those useless c*^ksuckers at the lumber yard ever bring us the
f*&^ing wood", replied the little girl.
