They couldn’t, though. Because of the space the back of the chair and the radius the wheels requires, the person in the chair would be sitting nearly a foot in front of anyone seated on the bench. e: look at the amount of space with my custom high-end and narrow profile chair (it’s even more space with the standard-issue chair): . Your head will be in line with the leftmost right dot if you’re relaxed. I backed my chair against a door, and that’s fuzz or something. That back bar prevents you from sitting ‘with’ anyone.