Group Stupidity

Group Stupidity

You're a group of 5 persons in a food court waiting for seats.

You find 4 seats at one end on a table for 12. Two of you sit down and wait for the family occupying the middle 5 seats to clear.

Then some seats are cleared as the members who had finished their dinner vacates the table.

So, you carry on to linger at your seats without making any move to occupy the table.

Then someone comes along and, leaving the four seats that you've occupied, sits in the seats in the middle.

Now, you're stuck with 4 seats for 5 persons again. And you look at one another.