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(you can basically vote now, it's not a complicated idea)
Everybody who's ever worked in an office environment has, at some time or another, taken a disproportionate amount of amusement from scooting round the place in an office chair. I am sure, dear reader, that you have many hilarious anecdotes
involving this sort of activity, but keep 'em to yourself because nobody cares.
However, problems arise because the wheels supplied with these chairs are generally pathetic, preventing true office mobility.
I think the humble office chair would benefit from some big knobbly wheels. These could be cunningly mounted in swivel mounts that could be raised or lowered as required to improve stability or allow a higher ride. On a day-to-day basis, this would mean that areas that were once out of bounds(lifts, for example, or the boss' office with his swanky deep shag carpet), would once again be easily accessible to scooting persons. After-hours chair races could be extended to include different floors, and would no longer have to be cancelled because someone had run a power cable across the corridor.
This would also open the way for a whole new tranche of extreme sports, which I leave to your imagination to create.
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Needs seatbelts, airbags, crumple zones, GPS, rollbar, engine |
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//to improve stability or allow a higher ride.// good thinking, [moomintroll] - it would allow for both kinds of *higher* ride. |
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[Rolling over colleagues in path to corner office...] |
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OK, I voted, skimmed extra minimally, and hasten to suggest a power assist system to get you over the annoying bumps. My desk is in my basement, the scene of the bulk of the turmoil surrounding the re-wiring of my house, and the area around my chair is littered with scraps of old wire, knobs and tubes and a mess of extension cords. Most frustrating. I want this. |
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More and more off road capable, yet seldom utilised office chairs would become status symbols of the well-to-do. |
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In other news, if you want thrills and spills, try skating around the office on a four-wheeled (as opposed to five or more) chair. Those things are death traps. |
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I don't think they've made them since the war though. |
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Race you. Mine's mounted on little pogo sticks. |
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[Taking calls from the top of Ben Nevis.] |
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[Misjudging the corridor... and the stairs... and the revolving door...]
[...and the boss's sense of humour...] |
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What about a monster truck style
super-market trolley? Whoa! That would
make navigating the jungle style
produce section much more interesting. |
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Did they take your red stapler too, Milton, er, oxen? |
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...wonder where [moom] is? |
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That may be the problem...to quote [moomintroll], "nobody cares". |
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The trouble with this idea will be seen by anyone with
kids who have swivel-mounted big-wheel toys -- they
don't swivel very easily without a big push. These
chairs are going to require a gas engine to overcome
that. [+] |
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