Have you ever been banned from anywhere?

[NFLDERS]

Unfortunately, yes from NASA Centre in Port Canaveral.

It was all my husband's fault. I'd gone to the restroom, and he thought it'd be OK to hoist the boys then 4 & 8 over the barrier rope to get this picture.
We were escorted out nicely, and told not to come back. It has made for a few great school projects about NASA along with the other pictures.

It was ALL my husband's fault as you can see in the picture, that I didn't ahem... take.

 

[Pacolovestacos]

Can be from forums

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

Yup got banned from a Cardinals website for talking smack after the Cubbies won last year!!! And I'm proud of it too!!!

 

[Cogswel_Cogs]

I was banned from a flagg football league for telling the ref that just cause his mom played dress up with him instead of his dad teaching him the rules of football didn't justify making that call.

 

[luvsJack]

A bar/club. One that I have never actually been inside of. My DS and his then wife were at a club. Some kind of trouble got started when the bar was closing and the bouncers jumped on DS and beat him up bad enough we had to go to the ER. His wife called me in hysterics. We took off up there, calling the cops as we went. I got out of the car screaming at the bouncers. Not sure what the little guy running around taking names so he could ban us thought he was accomplishing but I was told not to come back.

The bouncers went to jail that night and then again 3 weeks later when they were arrested for jumping on another guy (why the bar owner didn't think to fire them in the first place is beyond me) The second guy they actually followed to his car in a nearby parking lot and beat pretty bad. When they went off the bar property, it made the charges increase. None of them are allowed to work as bouncers in this city anymore. I never knew there was a method to being cleared to do that kind of work but apparently there is.

 

[Kaytie]

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!

Oh, yeah, the owner of that site is (was?) a real stickler, even obsessive, about posting exactly according to her commands.

Anyway, when I was twelve I was banned from the dentist. He graduated high school with my mother and had offices in that city and the one where I grew up - so we, and my cousin living in the other city, all went to him. He was filling some cavities and hurting me, but I was able to tell him during the work that he was a lousy dentist. He said he would finish working on me that day, then I needed to leave and never come back.

As adults, my brother swears the dentist used water instead of invocations, and my cousin was told by another dentist that she should sue him. He'd never seen such lousy work.

 

[Marchand63]

Yup in my drunk college days. We had a local saloon that we all loved. The owner, a really nice guy, remodeled then had an opening party. So what did my idiot college self do - carved my initials in his brand new probably 10,000 bar top. I was such a genius

Luckily he did forgive and let me back in 3 months later. He never even made me pay for the damage I did. So Steve - thank you & you were the man.

 

[AustinTink]

My group may or may not have been banned from a certain hotel on a certain beach after a very happening Spring Break in 1987.

 

[3 MEN AND A BOAT]

Toys R Us- for using pool noodles as jousts while riding the bicycles around the store among other things.
Krystal- a guy I was with threw the burgers at the employees after realizing they forgot to hold the pickles. Words were exchanged and another buddy threw the napkin holder against the back counter. We saw an employee come out with a pen and paper trying to catch our license plate, so we backed completely out of the parking lot and a block away before turning around.
Here a couple times- I'll leave it at that.
A few bars.
Thinking back I'm surprised I didn't get arrested more.

 

[Sabeking]

Yes!! It was conditional though. I used to go to this Asian grocery store and buy edamame which costs about 5.00 a bag. Every time I went I used my debit card. There was no sign saying that I couldn't. After about the tenth time they recognized me. The owner I assumed, started to scream at me in her native tongue. An employee told me she said to not come back unless I had cash or bought more than 10 dollars worth of merchandise...then I could use my card. She was cussing me all the way to the door. She didn't want to pay the charge fee I assume. They also have a lunch counter and ONLY take cash.

 

[manning]

Got kicked out of a Quality Inn for complaining about a leaky roof. Refuse to stay in them.

 

[Vijoge]

I was banned from my parent's home for almost 15 years. Does that count?

 

[bdcp]

I was banned from a diamond website. Mainly because I was conservative and the owners and a lot of posters were extremely liberal and very intolerant. Kind of ironic huh? I said a couple of things they didn't agree with and they banned me. Censorship at it's best. They banned by IP address and I got a new computer and eventually got back on, but I usually just shake my head at some of the posts. Seriously, you flaunt your diamonds, louis vuitton bags, etc and then slam someone who doesn't think socialism and being overly PC is the way to go. It was kind of funny, and they never saw the hypocrisy.

Oh, and I'm hardly the only one to be banned. There was a another jewelry site where those banned went and there were conversations about the site we were all blocked from. Mostly it centered around not thinking the owners walked on water.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I got banned from a sports website for Washington St. because I used the phrase Coug'd it when they choked away a game.

 

[maxiesmom]

I was banned from a local McDonalds back in my high school days. A group of us would always go to that McDonalds after home football games and ride the little carousel they had inside. We were not exactly quiet about it either. After putting up with it for a while one night they chased us out and told us to never come back.

 

[here757]

Oh yea..
Banned from AOL back in the day.. I used Proggies to boot folks offline.. back then the program sent several instant messages overloaded ur program and signed you off.. sucked cuz we all had dial up and it usually took 20 minutes to log in lol!!
And from every single Facebook page owned by an ex professional wrestler.. lol

 

[bcla]

Yes!! It was conditional though. I used to go to this Asian grocery store and buy edamame which costs about 5.00 a bag. Every time I went I used my debit card. There was no sign saying that I couldn't. After about the tenth time they recognized me. The owner I assumed, started to scream at me in her native tongue. An employee told me she said to not come back unless I had cash or bought more than 10 dollars worth of merchandise...then I could use my card. She was cussing me all the way to the door. She didn't want to pay the charge fee I assume. They also have a lunch counter and ONLY take cash.

Doesn't sound like you actually got banned, but kind of warned.

And I do get the issue with the credit cards. A store owner explained to me that the fee that his business paid to the credit card company was variable, and that it was a higher percentage if the average transaction was a smaller amount. He also said that his merchant agreement said that his business wasn't allowed to impose a minimum purchase amount, although many businesses did to try to keep the average credit purchase higher. I think under current federal law a merchant is specially allowed to require a minimum amount, although I think it can't be more than $10. A lot of big chain businesses have no minimum though. I've used a credit card to buy a 50 cent newspaper. I don't think they worry so much about having a lower average transaction, and they probably have better merchant agreement terms than small businesses.

 

[bcla]

Well - maybe not banned, but I do remember when I was in the Columbia House video club. It was first with LaserDisc, where they had these killer deals that allowed one purchase at regular price, and then a special price for a second title. The second title could be considerably more expensive and often the deal price was incredible. Then they transitioned to DVD. The way it worked was that they had a movie of the month that was supposed to be sent automatically unless you notified them by mail or phone (maybe even internet later) that you didn't want it or perhaps wanted a different title. I think part of their business model was that many didn't remember and then just paid for it. Their record/cassette/CD club was famous because their selections were labelled as being produced specifically for the club, but the movies were all identical to what I could find in a store.

Well - even if I forgot, I could always return a movie if it wasn't open, and they would send a prepaid return label on request for a return. I never had any of the operators ever say anything that made me feel less than welcomed as a customer. However, one day I received a sternly worded message chiding me for wasting their money on returning movies. I know it was just a form letter, but it was almost like some customer service staff got angry one day and just wrote something that expressed that anger without quite understanding how customers might take it.

So I wasn't banned, but I called in to cancel the next day, and let the customer service agent I talked to know that I didn't appreciate the tone of the message.

 

[peg110]

Well - even if I forgot, I could always return a movie if it wasn't open, and they would send a prepaid return label on request for a return.

I was in them for a while too. When I'd forget, I wouldn't even do the "Return Mailer", rather you could just write on the parcel "REFUSED" and they would return to sender. Not sure if they charged them return postage or not though.

I too got a letter basically stating that if I continued to NOT notify them of my desires to not receive the monthly selection, that I too would be banned.

 

[bcla]

I was in them for a while too. When I'd forget, I wouldn't even do the "Return Mailer", rather you could just write on the parcel "REFUSED" and they would return to sender. Not sure if they charged them return postage or not though.

I too got a letter basically stating that if I continued to NOT notify them of my desires to not receive the monthly selection, that I too would be banned.

Personally I thought that returns were just a cost of doing business for them. It's not as if return costs really affected their bottom line. They made a lot of missteps over the years, and I think something thinking that laying down the hammer would help was one of them. I'm pretty sure it cost them a lot of subscribers.

 

[Rockette]

A dance studio I used to part time instruct at while I was in undergrad will not allow me on their premises. They claimed I "stole their client" when I didn't even teach him a second after I left the studio. I just referred him to a better instructor in the immediate area he lived in, and they saw a massive problem with this.