My recording clipped off the beginning of the call so I transcribed it from when I got transferred.
“Good morning,Reference Desk.”
“Hi, I was transferred to you. I have a question about the Adult Ed. classes.”
“Ok, how can I help you?”
“I was wondering about your chair series.”
“Chair series?”
“Yeah, I know you have Chair Yoga and…”
“Well, we don’t have a series, per se. It’s Chair Yoga and that’s really it.”
“Oh.”
“Yeah, just Chair Yoga. If you’re interested I can sign you up before it fills up. Would you like me to put your name in?”
“Hmm. I was hoping to take a different one. Do you have Chair Boxing?”
“No.”
“Can you check?”
“I know we don’t have it.”
“Would another branch in the district have it? I can drive.”
“It doesn’t exist.”
“So, it’s not even a thing?”
“No. I never even heard of it.”
“Really? But, you offer Chair Yoga classes, though-“
“Yes we do, Wednesdays and Saturdays, very popular.”
“On Wednesdays AND Saturdays? Is the Chair market that big where you need to offer it twice?”
“The classes fill up, yeah. Are you a resident in this library district?”
“Ok, so then why not have Chair Boxing? Hear me out, standing in a ring for 15 rounds is taxing enough for senior citizens without throwing punches-”
“Sir…”
“-So if you just have them sit in chairs side by side facing each other-“
“No…”
“- and let them duke it out from their seats.”
“Sir, Chair Yoga is for people who may have flexibility issues or physical limitations, and…”
“Right, and that’s great, but Chair Boxing makes fighting accessible to people with the same concerns. You could lean back in your chair and fire off a roundhouse…”
“The board would never approve, I assure you.”
“…but the chairs can’t have armrests, you know, for upper cuts and right hooks…”
“I’m going to transfer you to the front desk. Hold on.”
“But they sent me to you…Hello?”