To be mad at Starbucks hosting a musical baby morning

[imnotreally]

My local Starbucks is located on the junction of an A road, just outside of town. People go there to work or to take business meetings. It also happens to be near the towns crematorium so a lot of mourners stop there for a coffee. I go because it’s a grown up coffee, away from the kids, I can have peace and quiet and think or work.

This morning I got there and half the seating was reserved. It turned out that a large portion of the seating area was being turned into a mother and baby/toddler group. Ok, fair enough but not really what you expect from a place where professionals meet. Then came the music. Loud kids music which involved clapping and singing along.

Am I being unreasonable to think they picked a totally inappropriate place and Starbucks are crazy to have arranged it?!

[Aspatria]

Imagine advocating for toddlers to be free to behave like toddlers in public. What a monumental bitch.

Your words, not mine.
Toddlers can very well be managed and behave (more or less) appropriately in public places. They can have a blast without being a nuisance, but it involve some efforts from the grown-ups. It's called parenting.

[JanKind]

If you want a grown up coffee then don't go to Starbucks bcoffee is crap. I am not a mother, but I think it's great they had a mums and kids thing. So many coffee places don't encourage mothers with children.

[Stickerrocks]

My local Waterstones café is the way forward. All toddlers safely tucked away around the corner with bean bags and slides. Nice large tables, sofas and benches spread around so everyone can pick somewhere appropriate to sit and jolly nice cakes & toasties.

[grannytomine]

Thought about this thread yesterday, I was on a train with one woman playing her music quite loudly and one man having a long business call, very loud and constantly telling the other person to remember all this information was confidential, yes right. Returning home today the woman sitting next to me ripped the plastic cover off her egg mayonnaise salad. The smell was awful. Two young men talking loudly and unable to complete one sentence without swearing.

The children on the train were all behaving beautifully. Adults, you can't go anywhere without annoying adults.