chair consoles broken bench

after reading Geoff Dyer's The Ongoing Moment, in which he remarks about photos of benches and what they mean (the overall "benchness" of a bench's situation, and why we use them...), I came across this scene with a different attitude. These implements of sitting seemed to be conversing about their duties to our behinds, and like the elders that abound in Florida, seemed to be remembering shared pasts... at least that's what I saw...