Message-ID: <27612506.1075840424807.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:06:00 -0700 (PDT) From: chris.dorland@enron.com To: mike.carson@enron.com Subject: Kids in Construction Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Chris Dorland X-To: Mike Carson X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \ExMerge - Dorland, Chris\Sent Items X-Origin: DORLAND-C X-FileName: chris dorland 6-26-02.PST ---------------------- Forwarded by Chris Dorland/HOU/ECT on 05/09/2001 11:06 AM --------------------------- "Kennedy, Rod" on 05/09/2001 10:33:29 AM To: "Papp, Bernie" cc: Subject: Kids in Construction <<[Fwd: Story]>> <> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <3AF8BEFA.B17E5075@mb.sympatico.ca> From: "Edith Haskett" To: "Jack Younge" Subject: [Fwd: Story] Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 23:52:26 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52) Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <001901c0d809$766045e0$51fdfea9@barry> From: "H. Barry Hastings" To: "Trudy Taphorn" , "Terri Hastings" , "Kim Hastings" , "Yvonne Gray" , "Pauline Aldworth" , "Marilyn Clayton" , "Jackie Thuener" , "Leigh Glenn Robinson" , lhawman@hotmail.com, "Larry Ermel" , "Ivan Englesman" , "laura thompson" , "Edith Haskett" , "Gordon J. Politeski" , "Sandy Nelson" , "Marlene Kopeck" Subject: Story Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:54:18 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2654.52) Content-Type: multipart/alternative ; boundary="----_=_NextPart_005_01C0D89D.65956AD0" > > > >>> >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"? > > > > >>> > > > > > >>> >"I will if those useless cocksuckers at the lumber yard ever > > > > >>>bring us > > > > >>> >the fucking bricks", replied the little girl > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com . > > > > > > - ATT526655.txt