The narrator tells the audience that he is looking for a job. He wants to be an assistant to the president of a company. The president of the company is waiting for him in the top floor office. The narrator refuses to drive the president to the office. He tells the president that the matter was not his concern when he lost his job, and that his stepmother's older helper is causing trouble. He also tells the narrator that he wants to help the president, but that he does not want to drive because he is not looking well. When the president tells him that he should go to a hospital and get his tonsils checked out, the narrator says that he likes the way the young man is acting.