Reality Check

So today was kind of interesting.....

Well, first you have to know that Dahlia and I are co-managing a Destination Imagination team of fifth grade girls. DI is a very cool organization that promotes creative thinking and problem solving. Our team, for example, had to research some critter and learn about it's means of communication. Now they are putting together a skit, complete with costumes,scenery, and 3-D props, in which they have to demonstrate their understanding of that animal's means of communication. Our girls chose bees.

Anyway... this afternoon we took our girls to a store where they could buy most of what they would need to construct their props and such. We had asked for parents to volunteer to drive us there, since neither Dahlia nor I have wheels. Two moms stepped forward. However, at 3:30 when we walked down to the main gate of the school to catch our rides,there weren't two moms waiting for us. Instead there was one very nicely dressed driver of one girl's family, and the elegant mom of another girls and her driver!

Yeah, it was weird for me too. I mean, it shouldn't be a big deal. I take cabs all the time, and I have used a driver for special things, and yet, somehow it was still sort of weird. Although, when we finished shopping and headed for the door we saw that the sky had opened up in a torrential downpour!! Well, no biggee... the cars were parked in the parking garage just about 20 feet from the door. We could make a run for it.

But no ~ the mom whipped out her phone to call her driver and asked him to meet us at the door with some huge umbrellas. Which he did. and he escorted us to the garage.

I think I may have gotten a drop of water on the back of my pants by my shoes.

Every now and then I have to do a reality check here. I mean, I am living in this second world country and yet, if you have money, doctors make house calls and people have drivers. You'd think that the US could figure out some of this!!!! Of course the downside of all this is that there are soooooooooooo many people here who have next to nothing. There's the reality check I suppose.