Dumb question: Why was the chair empty if it’s used by someone who “lives in it?”
If you read, you’ll see that the nightclub’s restrooms were downstairs...She had been carried down to use the restroom...The wheelchair was sitting there awaiting her return...
We gimpy-persons often “transfer” to other seating arrangements by severe human effort, and park our chairs out of the way. If anyone did that to my chair, I’d bash them in the knee with the closest heavy object.
My great Aunt lost her legs to a drunk driver. For decades, the men in the family had to help her get to the toilet, in places not meant for handicapped people.
In order for anyone in a wheelchair to use the toilet, that person has to leave it. Believe it or not, handicapped people don’t poop and pee in their wheelchairs!
If the rooms aren’t set up for wheelchair access, you leave the chair behind.
Handicapped people also have to leave their chairs to shower, go to bed, and travel somewhere in a car.
It’s always amazing to me when people who seem intelligent can’t see things that are obvious, even to children. You are one of them.