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?"