This is a true Limey Joke**********
MY FIRST PAY CHECK
> >
> > Here's a truly heartwarming story about the bond formed between a
> >little 5-year-old girl and some construction workers that makes you
> >believe that we CAN make a difference when we give a child the gift of
> >our time...
> >
> > 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 couple of dollars. The little girl took this
> >home to her mother who said all the appropriate words of admiration
> >and suggested that they take the two 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 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 a**holes at Home Depot ever
> >deliver the **cking sheet rock..."
> >
> > Stories like this just bring a tear to your eye.