Musical Chairs
I hate it when I go to a café or somewhere where there’s no empty chair and see someone sitting on an additional chair for their coat or bag. If I approach them and ask if I may use the seat, they are required by law to relinquish the seat, but they generally do so with a fake smile, implying that they are annoyed by the fact that their coat or bag is now chair-less because of me.
I know that he had a different meaning in mind. Still, it reminds me of a famous line from 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, and Sufi mystic Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi: “I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes, I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.”