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Your office chair is an indoor vehicle

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Let's be honest, you aren't walking to the printer. You are propelling yourself across the carpet in a wheeled throne because standing up is entirely too much effort. These chairs have secretly become our main mode of indoor transit, seamlessly moving us between monitors and trash cans without requiring a single leg muscle.

Your office chair is an indoor vehicle
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