My New Driver

The school provides us with vehicles, maintenance and gas.  They also provided drivers for the first two weeks, but then we had to hire our own.  The school pre-screened drivers and had about 30 show up on Tuesday.  We sat in a conference room and they waited in a long line in the hall.  It was horrible!  They all looked so eager, and they all really need work.  I share a car with another teacher and she couldn't go out to the hall to choose candidates.  I had to go out and just grab the first person in line.  There was no way I was going to walk down the line and pick someone else.  It brought back memories of grade school, when I would be one of the last picked for gym class teams.  Back then not being picked only meant I was not a good athlete, and not that I might not be able to feed my family this year.  We ended up interviewing four candidates (I couldn't go out to the hall a fifth time), and chose the driver with the best English, most experience, and, most importantly, the largest family to support.  Abdul starts Saturday.