A sweet little girl lived with her mother next door to a building site and, feeling a bit lonely, she would stand at the wire fence all day watching the men working.
One day, one of them spotted her and brought her on to the site where they found her an old chair so she could sit and watch them work in comfort.
When she came back the following day, they clubbed together, bought her a pink overall, a pink hard-hat, a pink lunchbox with a few sandwiches in it, and a little pink cup which they filled with lemonade.
At the end of the week they handed her a pink pay-packet with a pound note in it as wages.
She ran home and handed it to her mother, who said, "that's nice dear, will you be working there again next week?"
"It depends on whether those pricks at the builders merchants deliver the blocks on time", she replied.
Jim Carroll