"OK why don't you and Marcus work on the cushions, either from a couch or maybe from some lawn furnature in the outdoor department?  I'll go ahead and see about clearing some shelf space."  Jake said as he wiped the last of the sweat from his brow.  He nodded when Dinah mentioned the shower.  He hadn't had a chance to clean up in days and he was sure he smelled none too sweet.<br/><br/>Jake grabbed an LCD lantern off a nearby rack, along with a ladder and started looking up and down the isles for a good place to set up camp.  He was looking for something relatively light to move, but maybe sturdy enough that it could still act as a bumper to prevent them from rolling off the edge.  Six or seven rows away from the front door he eventually found an isle stocked with furnace filters on the second shelf.  He extended his ladder and made short work of roughly knocking the filters to the ground.  "We should still be able to salvage them if they later prove useful and at least they're quiet," he mumbled to nobody in particular.  He shook his head as he realized what he was doing.  He found he was talking to himself more and more lately; not that it was too unusual when one is alone, but it could be a bit unnerving now that he had compatriots.<br/><br/>In a few short minutes Jake had managed to clear out a space about 12 feet long by 8 feet wide.  The front of the shelf looked out onto the front area of the store with good visibility of the offices, main door, checkout and tool section.  The rear of the shelf backed into boxes of heating ducts, and the internal wall of the shelves seemed to butt into a rack full of PVC pipes.  If they really got stuck they could force their way through either of those, but it would make one hell of a racket.<br/><br/>Jake, hung the lantern up on the upper shelf to mark the space then slid down the ladder.  He looked around for a bit and eventually found a 10" diameter PVC drainage pipe. It was flexible and just about the right length for the new rack.  He dragged it back, and managed to secure it with duct tape so the only un-bumpered section was where the ladder stood.<br/><br/>With a smile on his face Jake strode back to the front gate to see what the others had come up with.