From American Thinker, where there is more:

Like thousands of other Americans, I belong to a senior aerobics class, one that meets in a church gymnasium. At least once a week, the class utilizes chairs as part of its workout, and it has always been the case that as students arrive for the class, they remove chairs from a metal rack along the wall and place the chairs wherever they like in the large, open room. The result is a sort of comfortable but highly efficient muddle.

Last weekend, I arrived and found that the chairs had already been set up by an instructor new to the class. This instructor, I’m sure, was just trying to be helpful, but the result was unfortunate. Many of the chairs had been placed too close together, and some had been placed at the front of the room, where no sexagenarian wished to be seen cavorting for all to observe. Some had been placed too close to the wall, some directly beneath a hyperactive heating duct. The perfectly rectangular alignment also made it difficult to see around the person in front. So there were many practical reasons why the orderly placement of chairs did not work.

There were other, less obvious reasons as well, many of them related to the intangible benefits of allowing individuals to order their lives as they wish. One of the pleasures of class had always been those minutes before exercise began in which participants greeted one another and shared news of their week. Deciding where to place one’s chair and getting one’s weights and mat set up was part of this social ritual since these activities encouraged mixing and interaction. Another part of the ritual was helping anyone who had difficulty lifting a metal folding chair out of the rack and carrying it across the room. For men in the class (all of them believing themselves to be exceptional specimens of physical fitness), there was pleasure in this small act of chivalry, as well as sport in seeing who could handle two or even four chairs at a time and set them up at the direction of the ladies.