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 pay check 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 bastards at the lumber
yard ever bring us the fuckin' drywall," replied the little
girl.