Election Day

It was election day, but as Rock shopped at the Levy Kroger he thought it seemed more like the day before Thanksgiving. The store was packed with employees and shoppers, and Rock and everyone else had to walk around stacks of boxes, and workers with box cutters hacking away. There were intricately and delicately balanced displays of everything from Campbell's Soup to Kroger-brand pimento cheese all over the store, and though Rock had entered as a shopper, it became his job as a new employee to build a display, of something. He would never remember what it was.
The next morning Rock was in charge of a post-election parade. He had remote control machinery throughout his house to support his managerial responsibility, including a buzzer on his nightstand that rang every ten minutes. The buzzer—the snooze function of his alarm clock—and a cat named Jo eventually convinced him it was time to get up and take more direct care of the parade.