Starbucks used to be a cool place for me to sit in and work. But the music really is something else…

The music – that cacophony of discordant sounds strung together for torturous amounts of time (I think they call it Jazz) is insufferable.

Folks, if you like Jazz, then that’s cool (that you like something, not that you like Jazz in particular) but since Starbucks are not targeting a niche made up of Jazz music lovers, I’m a bit baffled as to why I have to be subjected to this.

At least here in the UK.

We’ve only just got rid of smoking. Can’t we ban Jazz too?

I mean of course from public cafes

Well (before you get all flustered…) they don’t play death metal in other cafes… and if they did, you would expect only ‘metal heads’ to be in there, slurping the black stuff.

Conversely, when you look around Starbucks, you see mostly trendy mainstream people, babbling to each other loud enough to drown out the out-of-place Jazz.

So, for me, Starbucks is losing cool points by the minute.  I just can’t work in there anymore, with all that noise going on. The decibels are something else too! They cut right through my headset and derail my thoughts.

These days I much prefer sipping my coffee in the local library, where I can work in piece.