Fred's Uneasy Chair

At first he had attributed his feeling of unease to what Dr Freud called Unheimlich, the Uncanny, the alienating strangeness of new situations.

However as the seconds turned into minutes and the minutes metamorphosised into hours and the hours did whatever hours liked to do when they got restless, Fred gradually came to the conclusion that the mere fact of his movement from one chair (broken) to another chair (intact, more comfortable, but otherwise inferior) was not responsible for what he now recognised to be a sense of foreboding.

What was responsible for Fred's foreboding?

1. the chair upon which he was now sitting was already occupied
2. He had noticed something else about the poster on the wall
3. It was an age thing

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