I find it vaguely amusing that when I started here I had one chair. I was complaining one day that I didn’t have a guest chair, and some guy I didn’t really recognize (who no longer sits near me) gave me their spare (albeit slightly broken–the armrest is really crooked) guest chair.
A while later, a facilities guy came to bring the guy in the office across from me a guest chair–but apparently he didn’t need it, and the facilities guy didn’t want to take it over to the other building, so he said “here, have a guest chair” and left it. Then my chairs were in happy equilibrium for a long time.
Then some people started borrowing my guest chairs to take to staff meetings in Mary’s office. My two guest chairs would disappear for a few hours, and then reappear a few later. They happily came and went at will. And all was good.
Eventually one day I was sitting in my cubicle, and noticed something odd–rather than one chair behind my desk and one in front of it -or- two chairs in front of my desk and none behind it, there was now one chair behind my desk and two chairs in front of my desk. The old guest chair brought home a twin. “Wait, there’s one too many, where did that one come from?” I thought to myself, confused as to how long the clone chair had been there, and how it replicated itself into such an identical copy, complete with the funny armrest)
No one nearby has come looking for a missing chair, so in my cubicle the clone has stayed, happily running off its own to meetings in Mary’s office every now and then, only to reappear later–it always seems to come back. But its not like my cubicle doesn’t have room for spare chairs…so I guess it stays?