Coffee shops are one of the most annoying things man has thought of. I suppose the lesser of evils would be those hip, indie coffee shops that have a bunch of members of the near Revolution, college dropouts turned emo who then reformed and now attend the local community college, and anyone else who may consider him/herself somewhat intelligent and interesting but really aren't.

On one hand, Starbucks is better than this. At least in Mexico, everyone comes here. They bring their children, their friends, they sit and chat about this and that - nothing important but they don't pretend it is important, and they aren't trying to create a scene - and then they leave. Very simple. Sure the furniture and whatever else is in the store is standardized and everywhere just like any other American chain. The thing that really gets me is the terrible music that they play on their stereo. It is as if they have gotten every soft rock artist to cover important songs in rock history. For example, a slow, ballad of Ring of Fire or a Jose Gonzalezish version of Stairway to Heaven. I am just waiting for the cheez, raindrop version of Party Hard by Andrew W.K. to come out as well.



I wish I had a better place to write this paper.