Coming Down
Kim peeked out of the door. It seemed like every day, the park got a little more empty. The day before, Queen Anne was removed from her moorings.
"We're among the last to go," she told herself.
A truck passed by, carrying Yin and Yang's trains, sitting among a large rice cooker and various other kitchen tools.
A couple workmen approached the storage closet. A small truck was waiting outside the stand.
"All right, everything's all squirreled away, except for these guys," he said. The two carefully dragged the vacuums towards the truck and placed them inside. First Herbert and Vonda, then Lulu and Kim, Aaron and Julian, Bruce and Darla. Lenore was slipped into a bag and placed in the cab.
Kim opened her eyes. The vacuums were now sharing their space with a hot dog cooker and a slushie machine.
"Dude," the hot dog cooker said. "Can't believe it's over already!"
Herbert smiled. "Frankie, we'll just rest a bit before the next season. I can't wait to see what the new section looks like."
The truck pulled away.
Darla climbed up on Slushie for a better look. She got down a few minutes later.
"It's boring!" She said.
"Not much to look at?" Julian laughed. The truck abruptly stopped.
Darla got a good look at the warehouse: a large gray building.
"Welcome to our new home for the winter," Aaron said.
The workmen began the process of unloading everything. Frankie and Slushie were the first off the truck. Then a few more workmen arrived to get the vacuums out.
Kim was wheeled into the building and passed what looked like a break room. A coffee maker and an alarm clock sat on the counter.
The coffee maker stirred. "No one told me that the season ended."
"Don't mind Darcy," the alarm clock said. "She sleeps a lot."
Kim and the others found themselves in a storage closet right beside the break room, roughly the same size as the one in the park.
"So, what do we do?" Kim asked.
"Well," Julian said. "We just keep an eye on things."