Working at a young age

[Grumpy John]

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 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 ar$#holes at Bunnings ever deliver the f!$%ing Gyprock...'

[tea lady]

Starting a Bunnings joke collection? Could be an idea for a new forum.

[fenderbelly]

Good one GJ.

I first read that in one of Bill Brysons books( In a Sunburned Country ).

It was supposedly related to him by an old lady in Melbourne, but then again it may just have been journalistic licence.

Cheers Fred

[groverwa]

Reminded me of Kevin Bloody Wilson - The Builders Song

Mike