In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Heartwarming Story
njretcop
Member Posts: 7,975
Truly a heart warming story about the bond formed
between a little girl and some construction
workers. This makes you want to believe in the
goodness of people and believe there is hope for the
human race.
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?"
She replied "I will if those useless sons of bitches
at the lumber yard ever bring us any drywall that's
worth a *."
-Charlie
__________________________________________________
"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
between a little girl and some construction
workers. This makes you want to believe in the
goodness of people and believe there is hope for the
human race.
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?"
She replied "I will if those useless sons of bitches
at the lumber yard ever bring us any drywall that's
worth a *."
-Charlie
__________________________________________________
"It's the stuff dreams are made of Angel"NRA Certified Firearms InstructorMember: GOA, RKBA, NJSPBA, NJ area rep for the 2ndAMPD. njretcop@copmail.com
Comments
In 1986, Mikele Mebembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mikele approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mikele worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mikele stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Mikele never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.
Twenty years later, Mikele was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mikele and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mikele, lifted its front foot off the ground, and then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mikele couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mikele summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mikele's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly ... probably wasn't the same elephant.
Good one. That suited me just about right!
"We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*
**Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
good one nj
Have Gun, will travel
Though I was born to royalty, I was snatched at birth, so treat me as the noble I am!!!