Have you ever been banned from anywhere?

[meaty]

Can be from forums

I have been banned from local shop , some kid said they saw me stealing which I didn't.

 

[rastahomie]

Yes, a website which probably isn't even up any more. I won't name the website, because if I do, and I reveal why I was banned, I would be violating DIS rules about religious posts.

 

[Moxiepup]

I run a Facebook page called "Gallery of the Absurd", and I once got banned for two weeks because I posted a photo of David Bowie peeing into a toaster. You could barely see anything, but someone must have reported it.

 

[wilkeliza]

Never me but a friend got banned from our local arcade/go-cart/pizza place. It sucked because it was where we all hung out and she purposefully flipped her go-cart one night so they banned her. It wasn't a smart move and she could have seriously hurt herself but then if we were with her we couldn't go hang out there.

 

[wenrob]

My truck was 86'd from the Golden Nugget parking garage. We'd gone for a company Christmas dinner that included free booze. Took a cab home. Turns out they don't validate if you don't have a room there. (used to be any hotel would validate within 24 hours) So when I went to leave I find out they only take cash but they wouldn't let me back up, park and go get some. Instead they flagged my license plate and told me I couldn't park there anymore. Had I not been so hungover I might have remembered my BIL worked security there and was on shift. But whatever, lol. I hadn't been there in more than 20 years and it wasn't likely I'd be returning any time soon.

I've never been banned from a forum. Even tried once. Nada. Lots of times I think I'm going to at least get in trouble but for whatever reason I don't.

 

[Meriweather]

no......just not interesting or outspoken enough...a perfect angel

 

[cjbcam]

Yes! From a walk in clinic. I went in because my ear was killing me and I couldn't hear out of it. Anyways the nurse went to use this medal ear washer thing and when you push the one end in water is supposed to come out. Well the whole medal tip went into my ear and into my eardrum. The nurse then says oh sorry this one has been broken for months why haven't they got rid of it?!? I was crying and upset they used a broken thing on me, my ear was bleeding and I ran out of the office crying. Well when I got into the truck and told my husband what happened he stormed in there demanding the nurse and doctors names. They would not give him them. I went to another doctor to see how much damage was done and then left it at that. Five years later we received a letter from said clinic saying we were no longer welcome there. Why the heck do they think we would even consider going back after that.

 

[IAHFTPT]

Yes, because I seem to occasionally have a problem biting my tongue.

 

[BrianL]

Kinda when I was a kid. I was a loyal customer of a comic book store, but a different little shop opened up close to my hose and I would ride my bike to it and sometimes just pick up random things that weren't on my usual list. Well, the guy in there knew we were regulars at the other store and he started trying to lure us to his shop and really trash-talking the owner of the other store. Well, I may have mentioned it to my usual comic book guy, and it got back to this dude. He told my friends that he'd physically throw me out if I ever wen't back in there, so I never did. His shop closed within a few months of that. Oh well.

 

[bcla]

Never got banned per se, but I got thrown out of a movie once. My kid asked a quick question and I tried answering it quickly to try to limit any disturbance but it just kind of ballooned into a typical emotional toddler meltdown. Even people who had been pretty chatty with us before the movie started to berate us. I tried taking my kid out and was even willing to just eat the cost, but my kid didn't want to leave either. Then armed security guards came to escort us out, although I was already trying to leave. We were greeted by their customer service manager. He was actually pretty understanding, and I'm sure it happens a lot. We got a couple of reentry passes and I brought my kid back to that same place to watch that very same movie without incident.

It's also kind of strange how a kid can melt down. My kid couldn't read well at that age and just asked me where the scene was supposed to be when the name of the place was displayed on the screen. I kind of whispered it twice but that wasn't enough. Once my kid started getting agitated it became harder and harder to control.

 

[DawnM]

Yes. I was banned from a hotel for writing a scathing review (they deserved it and I wouldn't have gone back anyway!)

I have also been banned from some Priceline forum, oh yeah, BiddingForTravel.com, which is where I won the auction to stay at the above hotel! Thankfully, Priceline was GREAT and I got my money back but that hotel? SHEESH! I never get kicked out of places, it was the oddest experience.

 

[bcla]

Yes. I was banned from a hotel for writing a scathing review (they deserved it and I wouldn't have gone back anyway!)

I have also been banned from some Priceline forum, oh yeah, BiddingForTravel.com, which is where I won the auction to stay at the above hotel! Thankfully, Priceline was GREAT and I got my money back but that hotel? SHEESH! I never get kicked out of places, it was the oddest experience.

I haven't been banned but I did write up less than stellar review about a service business and got a direct response in the review. It wasn't really about the quality of the work, but that I felt that the pricing hadn't really been disclosed up front. They did also say that they hoped I would come back.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Not that I can remember, but I almost was once when I was twelve. My friend and I were at the mall (sans parents) and bought some of those champagne popper things and let one off in the middle of the mall. We truly didn't do it to scare anyone or anything, we just weren't thinking. A huge security guard ran over to us yelling that if we did it again, we'd be "banned from the center." I was a very obedient child (though I had a mouth on me) and it scared me to death.

 

[peg110]

Well besides the girls locker room in High School.... (Just kidding though.... Really, I am)

I don't think I have ever been notified that I was banned, but there have been places where the experience was less then stellar (and I was not afraid to mention it... In person or in online reviews) that I would never go back to. I may very well have been banned.

I am actually surprised I wasn't banned from more though from my youth.... I was a little hell raiser. Not that it ever brought the Police to our door step (that was more my brother). I guess I was just good at "Hiding" some of the things I did. Hope my kids never find out.

 

[Kogo Shuko]

When I was in high school, a group of friends and I got kicked out of the Pizza Hut because we were laughing too loud and some family complained (we weren't being inappropriate, just loud). But we didn't get banned.

I was once banned on an X-Files message board for, simply put, being a fan of a character that nobody loved (Agent Doggett). So I started my own Doggett message board, and took all the Robert Patrick fans with me. The owner of the board quickly reversed my ban and begged me to come back. NOPE.

 

[RedAngie]

Back in the day, under my stage name, my admittedly risqué act was Banned In Boston for being lewd, obscene, and having no redeeming social value.



I didn't mind. The resulting publicity ensured sold out crowds during the rest of my tour.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_in_Boston

Boston was founded by the Puritans in the early 17th century, who held strict moral standards. Boston's second major wave of immigrants, Irish Catholics, began arriving in the 1820s and also held conservative moral beliefs, particularly regarding sex.[2] The phrase "banned in Boston", however, originated in the late 19th century at a time when American "moral crusader" Anthony Comstock began a campaign to suppress vice.[3] He found widespread support in Boston, particularly among socially-prominent and influential officials.[2][3] Comstock was also known as the proponent of the Comstock Act, which prevented "obscene" materials from being delivered by the U.S. mail.[4]

Following Comstock's lead, Boston's city officials took it upon themselves to ban anything that they found to be salacious, inappropriate, or offensive. Aiding them in their efforts was a group of private citizens, the Boston Watch and Ward Society.[2] Theatrical shows were run out of town, books were confiscated, and motion pictures were prevented from being shown; sometimes movies were stopped mid-showing, after an official had "seen enough". In 1935, for example, during the opening performance of Clifford Odets' play Waiting for Lefty four cast members were placed under arrest.[2]

This movement had several unintended consequences. One was that Boston, a cultural center since its founding, was perceived as less sophisticated than many cities without stringent censorship practices.[2] Another was that the phrase "banned in Boston" became associated, in the popular mind, with something lurid, sexy, and naughty. Commercial distributors were often pleased when their works were banned in Boston—it gave them more appeal elsewhere.[2]

 

[bcla]

Well - come to think of it maybe once when I was a kid. That's possibly the only time and it wasn't any kind of business. I used to go to this one kid's place near where I lived. It was a strange situation too where all the kids basically did this one thing, which was to exit the house through a window into the front yard. The window opened on a hinge mounted to the side and there was more than enough room for even an adult to exit. It was something that pretty much the kids in the house did and where all the kids visiting did at one time or another. However, one time the kid's mom saw me (and nobody else) do it and right then and there I wasn't welcome to visit any more.

I was kind of surprised. I'd really never heard anything about it, her own kids did it all the time, and every kid visiting did it too. I just happened to do it where she saw me and I was immediately persona non grata. I still hung out with that kid, but I wasn't allowed past the front porch.

 

[amberpi]

I haven't thought about this in a hot minute. I, by proxy, got kicked out of a science fiction convention - a crappy, small one in Mobile, AL, which I'm not exactly sure why we frequented. I used to go to a LOT of sci fi conventions, as all of my friends were dispersed and it was a way for us to see each other, we still do some conventions, but also normal places like NYC, Napa, New Orleans, ya know.
Anyhow, as per usual we got a suite and multiple surrounding rooms. We threw a room party but didn't want to let anyone in. My friend who had the suite (I had the adjoining room) wouldn't let some people (I guess including the founder of the convention) in our party - and honestly, he was a super gross creeper, so good. Our party got shut down and the friend in the adjoining room got kicked out and had to grab a night in the hotel across the street, where we all retreated to for the remainder of the weekend doing exactly what we would have done at the convention. It was a crazy few hours though!

 

[soccerdad72]

From here, once

 

[aprilchem]

Not me, but husband was banned from a local Thai restaurant because he forgot to add a tip to the bill. It was an honest oversight; he's a generous tipper. He immediately apologized and offered to add a tip to the bill right there, but the manager was screaming at him and "banned him for life".