Chapter 24Joe slogged along the dark sidewalk, sighing wearily as he made his way home from work. Unfortunately, he'd been forced to work late for the third day in a row, and was only now done with his shift. As usual, Joe had been scheduled to work from noon to seven o'clock; today, though, Burger World had been so busy that he'd had to stay until nine.
It had been a full week since he'd started working at the restaurant. For Joe, the time had raced by, seeming more like one day than five. Now that he wasn't just hanging around on the street all the time, things seemed to speed up like an old Keystone Cops movie. He woke at about ten o'clock each morning, went to work at noon, returned home by seven or eight, and went to sleep; it was the same process every day, and it all seemed to
