I used to think that no place of business should play music, because there is no one kind of music that brings pleasure to everyone. And, even if music brings pleasure, it presents a distraction which can interfere with judgment.

I was sure of that until I ate in a restaurant where I was forced to overhear the conversation at a nearby table: "She was sick the WHOLE time she was pregnant!"

I said to my husband, "Don't you wish they had some loud, obnoxious music on in here?"

Possibly white noise or the sound of the sea is the answer.