joke time

[Russianwolf]

A heart warming story about the bond formed between a
little girl and some construction workers. This will
make 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 came in and began
building a house on the empty lot.

The family's 5-year-old daughter became interested in
all the activity going on next doo! r 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
project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with
them while they took 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, the men presented her
with a pay envelope with $2.00 inside. The little
girl took this home to her mother, who said all the
appropriate words of admiration.

Mom suggested that they start a savings account. When
they talked to the teller, she was impressed and
asked the little girl how she had earned her very own
paycheck at such a young age.

The child proudly replied, "I worked last week with the
crew building the house next door to us."

The teller said, "wow, 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 F***IN' sheet rock."

[havighurst]

Thanks for the laugh. That is funny!

[Jaden]

Beautiful....................lol

Thanks,

Steve

[chabin76]

Too close to home

I have a 5 year old girl and I can just see her doing that. Boy would I die if anything that happened. I would be rolling on the floor when I should be getting pretty stern.

[gerti]

Excuse me while I wipe the tears out of my eyes... :-)))

[ddamoore]

Funny funny funny

[glencross]

joke time

That was hilarious!!!

[monte]

Good one Mike!

[just4funsies]

Reminds me of way back when I was a newlywed. There was a single mom with a little girl and a junky, unreliable car living across the street. The little girl's first words were "This f@#*ing car!!!".

[jhart]

Good one, Mike

[Whaler]

Thanks, that made my morning.

[Russianwolf]

I thought you guys might like that. Especially with the HD reference.

[JSUPreston]

Sounds like our GC.

Backstory. Wife was pregnant with #2. House we owned was bursting at the seams. Was either going to have to enclose the carport to make another bedroom, or sell and move. Wife's stepmother remarried, leaving that house vacant. Wife's parent's bought out the MIL's sister's half of the house and rented it to us at an ungodly low rent so that grandchildren can be next door. We sold our old house and paid off some bills. Made about $11k in profit in a 3.5 year period.

Last year, inlaws hire local GC to tear down the old carport and old laundry room addition (easier/cheaper to rebuild than repair). Work started in March of 2005.

End of Feb. 2006, the cabinet maker finally installs the one custom unit we had made. We went through 2 superindentents on the job (first was fired halfway through the project) with sometimes weeks and months going by with no work. I could've gotten the guys from work to come over every weekend and set up a keg and burgers and probably gotten the job done quicker. I actually did almost all the finish carpentry. The first super thought that it was perfectly alright to rip a 2x4 into a 1x2 and call it trim around the hanging cabinets.

During the process of construction, my underground power to the shop was cut and buried under a slab that will survive not only thermal nuclear warfare, but also the second coming of JC himself. That's why I didn't get any work done in the shop at all last year.

Anyway, back to the joke. It was at least a humorous reminder of what we went through. I could just see my six year old saying the exact same thing, curse words and all. And in this case, I don't think I'd fuss at him (too much)!

[Mrs. Wallnut]

As most of you know, my husband was a truck driver, (Black Wallnut). Well my parents watched the kids for me after schools when we first moved back to my home town.

I go to get the kids and as soon as I walk in my parents house my dad gives me that stern look that dads have and told me that "my son" said something bad. So I ask what he said.

Dad explained that our son was playing with his trucks outside and was playing with two or three of them and coming out of my 5 year olds mouth at the time was this saying that he heard from his Dad "f***kin' four wheelers" adn when I told Mark about this he just had to laugh. I told him not to laugh because I was the one that had to hear the lecture from my dad about it.

Just thought I would share that one..I will never forget it.