The Empty Chair

We have an office wide meeting every Monday morning that takes place next door in a large room to seat about 40 of us in a nice oval shape around a large conference table. We could not meet there today, because that space is getting new carpet so we met in our large conference room today. There are about 12 nice chairs that sit around the table and some of us knowing that brought our own chairs to sit on the outskirts of this table and others sat around the table in the nice chairs. Soon all the nice chairs were take but one and for some reason no one wanted to sit in it. People would peek in the door to see what the seating situation was and then come back with their own chair. While the chair sat empty, some people came in and sat on the floor and others stood in the door way as the meeting got started. Its funny how when you save something (a seat at the table) for someone who may come in later, that they don’t accept it assuming that there must be a reason that the seat is empty or maybe they feel they are not worthy to sit in this nice chair when others have passed it up.