Piano BF ignores GF, refuses to stop playing music at small cafe: 'I told him it was a self-centered thing to do'

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  Woman sits in coffee shop, mortified by her BF's piano playing. 

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• There was a piano in a small cafe full of ~20 people eating/talking/working…

  
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  Man plays piano loudly while waiting for his girlfriend to react.

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• Good question!

  
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• It does seem obvious that if there's a piano, people will try to play it. That's why a lot of places seem to put a sign on it requesting no one play, or put up barriers to block potential musicians from playing their tunes. So functionally, yes, you have a piano that no one is ever allowed to play. 

  But I feel like it must be to protect the employees' sanity. Imagine you go into work at as a barista and a 5-year-old starts slamming on the piano keys while you're trying to hear people's coffee orders. Then some teens come in and giggle and play a few random notes each. Then a budding piano player comes in and plays “Hot Cross Buns” over and over again, since it's the only song they know. And by that point, you've only been at work for 30 minutes, and you're already piano'd out for the day. 

  When this person's BF played the piano nicely, I bet it was a big relief to the workers (and patrons). If you can't control who's tickling the ivories, you're putting everyone else in the grips of the worst piano players known to mankind. 

• People had a lot of questions to ask

  
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  The internet loves to tell people to break up with their partners. But in this case, it might be good advice. 

  If you love your musician partner, you'd never be embarrassed by them playing music out in public. And conversely, if this dude cared about his GF's feelings, he wouldn't play piano when she is literally begging him not to. They just aren't compatible. 

• Is ignoring your partner "putting in the work"? I don't know about that...

  
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  I don't even understand what putting in the work would look like, because that would just mean repressing a part of himself that is presumably a big part of his identity. 

• A coffee shop isn't the best place for a piano, anyway. Aren't people trying to talk or do work?

  
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• Great point! This guy was being quite presumptuous

  
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