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Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on :

A canadian federal politician was ejected from an airplane!
He claimed he was stressed, and therefore drunk, no word on whether or not he was offered a parachute.
But - perhaps we have all done things under stress, while drunk, or just because.
This thread is to detail in wonderful detail the amazing places from which you have been ejected, from your high school library when you were caught napping on a table to a high class restaurant where you tried to order a burned hotdog and a beer.
Have fun and please do exagerate to your heart's contnet!

Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on :

We were ejected from the LA Playboy Club when my wife was underage, though it did not happen when we were out-of-state. How dare they refuse a member the opportunity to see the great Cannonball Adderley!

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

The members of my junior high bowling team and I were kicked out of Westlake Bowl (of blessed memory) for running around the upper lanes in a closed section of the allies.

Posted by moron (# 206) on :

Elitch Gardens circa 1972. Rell and I thought for some reason it made sense to toss lit matches off the gondola thing and The Management disagreed.

After all these years I can better see their point although no actual harm was done.

And to their credit they allowed us to sneak back in. [Overused]

Posted by Oferyas (# 14031) on :

Erm, school actually.
There is a certain school south of London which currently has seven applicants for every available place.
I was ejected from it at the age of fourteen.
Forty years later, I wonder if they will let me into the Old Boys Society??

[ 23. October 2012, 07:30: Message edited by: Oferyas ]

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I was ejected from the school orchestra because my clarinet squeaked and made everyone laugh.

Posted by Trudy Scrumptious (# 5647) on :

A group of friends and I -- about five of us, late teens/early 20s -- were once asked to leave a Burger King for rowdy behavior. It's hard to imagine lowering the tone of a Burger King but apparently we did.

Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on :

I have obviously been too heavenly an anarchist, as I cannot remember having ever been ejected from anywhere! But I have been rather rudely removed from a cafe table, so I'll recount that instead [Smile]

When I was about 20 (and looked 5 years younger) my twin brother asked me to be his escort on a trip out with the local blind society. We had a lovely day together and met back up with the others in the cafe which was booked for high tea. We joined some older members on a table to chat.
Within minutes the manager stormed up to us and started ranting about the youth of today and how rude we were sitting there and not upstairs when it was quite obvious there were blind and elderly people who needed to sit downstairs. He was really quite unnecessarily rude, we would have happily moved on a polite request.
I waited until he had finished and then calmly apologised for not having noticed there was an upstairs to the cafe. I told him I would take my blind brother to sit there instead. On cue, my brother promptly stood up, got his white stick out and reached for my arm. The manager looked mortified as we walked off.

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

I was ejected and blacklisted at my local Macdonalds for carrying a Morrisey "meat is Murder" poster. I had just bought it for a friend at the poster sale in the Student Union, the poster was rolled and all that could be seen was the word "meat" but apparently the manager knew it well enough to decide I was a militant veggie (I have never been vegetarian) and added my name and photo (taken without my permission) to the blacklist.

Burger King also ejected me a couple of years ago for wearing a tweed suit and bowler hat. Apparently they had a "no posh" campaign or something.

I was ejected from my local pub, shortly after the new management took over, for daring to sit drinking a pint without ordering food. The new regime lasted less than three weeks but I have never set foot in that place since.

I was ejected from Sunday School for wearing an Iron Maiden T-shirt and reading a Dennis Wheatley.

[ 23. October 2012, 10:41: Message edited by: Bob Two-Owls ]

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:

Burger King also ejected me a couple of years ago for wearing a tweed suit and bowler hat. Apparently they had a "no posh" campaign or something.

What colour was the bowler?

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

Dark Brown of course.

Posted by Jenny Ann (# 3131) on :

Every pub in Conwy. Admitedly we were 16 and drunk on alchopos. It took a week but sure enough every pub kicked us out eventually [Big Grin]

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:

I was ejected from my local pub, shortly after the new management took over, for daring to sit drinking a pint without ordering food.

How bizarre. Pubs are watering holes first and eateries second. Evidently the management wanted to run a restaurant instead, so hopefully they fecked off and did so.

Posted by Pine Marten (# 11068) on :

My friend and I were thrown out of Nazareth - or rather the Church of the Annunciation. Normally we dressed modestly when visiting holy places, but that particular day we just forgot, and my friend was wearing a shirt and shorts, and I had bare shoulders, having forgotten to take my shawl. We stood no chance of getting in!

The first Mr Marten and I were refused entry to a pub in (I think) Scarborough once, for wearing tee-shirts and jeans.

Posted by Caissa (# 16710) on :

The latest update on the politician mentioned in the OP is that Romeo Saganash has taken leave for treatment of alcoholism.

I have no recollection of being ejected from any place other than at closing time.

Posted by Amorya (# 2652) on :

I was thrown out of both Apple and Google on the same day.

Apple we didn't get past reception, but at Google you can just wander in. We made it through the employee café — if we'd been spies, I'm sure some of them were discussing their top secret upcoming products [Smile]

Posted by Amorya (# 2652) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
I was ejected from my local pub, shortly after the new management took over, for daring to sit drinking a pint without ordering food. The new regime lasted less than three weeks but I have never set foot in that place since.

I was once refused service in a Weatherspoons in Cornwall for not having ID. I was overage, and was in there at lunchtime, ordering food and a glass of tap water, and sitting in the family area with a group of friends. I was told that without ID I wasn't allowed to eat there, and if anyone else ordered food for me they'd be refused service too.

Posted by Bob Two-Owls (# 9680) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider:
How bizarre. Pubs are watering holes first and eateries second. Evidently the management wanted to run a restaurant instead, so hopefully they fecked off and did so.

You would think so wouldn't you. Unfortunately it is now a chain restaurant pub, no real ales, lots of wine (downright un-British!)and no drinking without eating. I walk a mile past it every night to go to a proper pub with beer brewed on the premises and the odd impromptu banjo/ukulele/concertina session. And they let the dog in as well.

Posted by Sparrow (# 2458) on :

I was one of our church music group that was asked to leave the local market one Christmas because we were singing Christmas carols - apparently we caused "offence" to the non Christian stall holders.

[Frown]

Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on :

I was thrown out of a Bible study in my teens, I think for being the Antichrist. Something like that.

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

I got ejected from Blackpool football ground in the early '70s. There was no crowd trouble, but a few innocent items such as toilet rolls were being thrown. I was not ejected for throwing but for catching a toilet roll, it being in my hand was evidence enough for the plain clothes policeman in the crowd.

Posted by BessHiggs (# 15176) on :

Back in Miami, in the early 90's I was kicked out of one of my favorite bars. I had gone to the ladies room and noticed there were two sets of legs visible under the partition of the other stall. When I came back out, I made a comment to my date about what might have been happening in there, something along the lines of it being either sex or a drug deal. The bartender overheard me and hit the roof along the lines of how dare I...blah, blah, blah, and told me to get out. (It turns out it was, in fact, a drug deal, and one of the ladies involved was scoring for the bartender...)

Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob Two-Owls:
Dark Brown of course.

Thought it would be. They'd no excuse at all, then.

Posted by leo (# 1458) on :

Antwerp Cathedral - I wanted to attend Mass on the Assumption but was late because it was hard to decipher the notice board the previous day, having just arrived. they thought I was a tourist and blocked my entry so i went in by another route and the ejector spotted me. I wrote a damning MW report about the experience.

[ 23. October 2012, 16:20: Message edited by: leo ]

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

quote:
Originally posted by moron:
Elitch Gardens circa 1972. Rell and I thought for some reason it made sense to toss lit matches off the gondola thing and The Management disagreed.

After all these years I can better see their point although no actual harm was done.

And to their credit they allowed us to sneak back in.

My dad's first job was at Elitch Gardens. He would have been there a few years before your incident, however, so he wasn't the one who got you.

quote:
Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
A group of friends and I -- about five of us, late teens/early 20s -- were once asked to leave a Burger King for rowdy behavior. It's hard to imagine lowering the tone of a Burger King but apparently we did.

My Aunt is still ashamed to admit that she was kicked out of a McDonald's because my cousins (her nephews) were acting too rowdy. (When you meet them today, it is hard to imagine that they were ever that loud.)

I got 86'd from a bar for being obviously drunk once. I don't remember being that belligerent, but I was apparently drawing enough attention that I got a hand on the shoulder escort out from a bouncer. Most people are a little surprised to hear that one.

Posted by Starbug (# 15917) on :

I was asked to leave the working men's club that my husband belonged to. I had assumed that I was allowed to 'sign in' a couple of my girlfriends for a quiet drink one evening. Not so- only the (all male) members were allowed to sign in visitors; as a mere wife, I wasn't a proper member and therefore had no such privilege. A very polite elderly steward came out to eject us from the club.

A few years after this, equality rules forced them to allow women to become members. I didn't take up the offer.

[ 23. October 2012, 17:21: Message edited by: Starbug ]

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Og, King of Bashan:
I got 86'd from a bar for being obviously drunk once. I don't remember being that belligerent, but I was apparently drawing enough attention that I got a hand on the shoulder escort out from a bouncer. Most people are a little surprised to hear that one.

It may not have been your fault, Og.

I have seen an argument in a bar where one person was getting belligerent. It was the other man, the one being abused, who was asked to leave. The abuser was a regular, and you don't ban regulars.

We didn't stay for a second drink.

Posted by Ceannaideach (# 12007) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Pine Marten:
My friend and I were thrown out of Nazareth - or rather the Church of the Annunciation. Normally we dressed modestly when visiting holy places, but that particular day we just forgot, and my friend was wearing a shirt and shorts, and I had bare shoulders, having forgotten to take my shawl. We stood no chance of getting in!

Our whole tour group was nearly thrown out of the Church of the Holy Nativity for (gently I think) laughing at a joke our tour guide made. Apparently the birth of the son of God isn't that joyful an occasion.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

I refuse to give publicity to any establishment that throws me out. Even if I deserve it.

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

W H Smiths - with a group of other sixth formers. For being disruptive and scary according to the member of staff. We'd found the Winnie the Pooh books and were reciting stories from memory.

Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
W H Smiths - with a group of other sixth formers. For being disruptive and scary according to the member of staff. We'd found the Winnie the Pooh books and were reciting stories from memory.

That's almost a badge of honour. W H Smith refused to stock Private Eye for many years. Not because they thought it a priggish self-important little rag, but because it had referred to that newsagent and wannabe bookshop as W H Smug.

By banning the 'Eye, the 'joke' continued for at least a decade.

Well done!

Posted by balaam (# 4543) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:

quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
W H Smiths - with a group of other sixth formers. For being disruptive and scary according to the member of staff. We'd found the Winnie the Pooh books and were reciting stories from memory.
That's almost a badge of honour. W H Smith refused to stock Private Eye for many years. Not because they thought it a priggish self-important little rag, but because it had referred to that newsagent and wannabe bookshop as W H Smug.

By banning the 'Eye, the 'joke' continued for at least a decade.

Well done!

I still refer to them by that name.

Posted by angelica37 (# 8478) on :

I was reading through this thinking what a dull life I've led when I remembered I was actually ejected from a pub once. I was out with my parents and my three small children at the time, we stopped at a nice country pub by a river walked into the bar to order some food and were greeted by 'No children in here, outside!' so we went outside and went to the next village instead.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

I was ejected from a milk float when I was about 10 years old. The milkman used to give lifts to all the boys (this was well before anyone had ideas about CRB checks, health and safety, etc.). He discovered, that although I had short hair, wore trousers, and was a tomboy, I wasn't actually a boy. So he booted me off. Which all the 'real' boys thought was hilarious, of course. [Mad]

Posted by Horseman Bree (# 5290) on :

Sadly, the only place I've been ejected from is a church, the rejection having something to do with my (our) support for a female minister (and that in a denomination that was among the first to do OoW).

Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :

I was ejected from Brazil once.

On a different occasion, I managed to get ejected from a karaoke bar once for singing too badly.

Posted by Loquacious beachcomber (# 8783) on :

I was once ejected from Union Station - sort of - by a snarly security guard; I was drunk, below the legal drinking age, and had passed out in a waiting area.
I had attended a Christmas party at our head office in The Big City, and the kind folks there decided to feed the first year attendees mixed drinks, to see which one of us would barf first (it wasn't me!)
I managed to get to Union Station across the street from head office, and was waiting for my train back to the boonies when I passed out; after showing the guard my return ticket, he said I could stay until the train arrived, but if I fell asleep and missed it, he would remove me from the station. I fell asleep again almost immediately, then he woke me up when the train arrived, took me by the arm, and put me into a seat back home.

Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :

Roller Rink. When I was 12. I had a short sleeve blouse on ( High neck, no sleeves but fully covered shoulders) Over this I wore a sweater. I got hot skating and took off the sweater. I was kicked out for immodest dress. Clearly everything was covered but my arms and at 12 I had nothing else to expose anyway. [Paranoid]

They would not let me put my sweater back on and keeping skating.

Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Graven Image:
Roller Rink. When I was 12. I had a short sleeve blouse on ( High neck, no sleeves but fully covered shoulders) Over this I wore a sweater. I got hot skating and took off the sweater. I was kicked out for immodest dress. Clearly everything was covered but my arms and at 12 I had nothing else to expose anyway. They would not let me put my sweater back on and keeping skating.

Where was this? Seventh Church of the Apocalyptic roller skate?

Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :

Oh yes, two more.

I got us kicked out of a pub in Hebden Bridge for falling asleep. We were walking the Pennine Way and I'd picked up food poisoning from the spring water at the campsite at Crowden Beck. I really didn't feel well enough to be drinking beer or anything. There had been a dead sheep further up the stream - it happened regularly. I think I was the only one who'd either cleaned my teeth using unboiled water or drunk some. (I was with teenage boys.)

The second time I managed to get the entire windsurfing fleet banned from a sailing club. I was a student home for the weekend and had ended up spending the day on the banks of a yacht club as per usual. In the bar that evening the social committee took offence at my Fox and Firkin sweatshirt. I didn't buy it, it was a present, clean when I packed because I didn't wear it much, only when I ran out of things I liked better. Across the back there was printed: "For Fox sake get me a Firkin pint."

Part way through the evening an irate gentleman started spluttering how disgusting I was, very much in my face. It took a while to work out why he was so cross, but when I registered, I took the sweatshirt off and slung it around my shoulders with just the front showing, which had the sign and design of "Fox and Firkin". But the irate gentleman came back to say, "but it's still showing!"
"Um, what's still showing?"
"Tha-at word!"
"You mean firkin?"
"Don't say it, it's disgusting."
"It's a size ..."
"It's disgusting, you shouldn't go around wearing something like that"
It went on. The windsurfer fleet got banned.

A couple of windsurfer committee members had to go to a committee meeting and appeal the decision. I got told about it, through giggles. The windsurfers were pretty much the youth division who were frowned at by the older social members who found them noisy and disruptive. I'm not sure showing up ignorance with a pile of dictionaries really helped much. But they won the appeal.

Posted by Og, King of Bashan (# 9562) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Loquacious beachcomber:
I was once ejected from Union Station - sort of - by a snarly security guard; I was drunk, below the legal drinking age, and had passed out in a waiting area.
I had attended a Christmas party at our head office in The Big City, and the kind folks there decided to feed the first year attendees mixed drinks, to see which one of us would barf first (it wasn't me!)
I managed to get to Union Station across the street from head office, and was waiting for my train back to the boonies when I passed out; after showing the guard my return ticket, he said I could stay until the train arrived, but if I fell asleep and missed it, he would remove me from the station. I fell asleep again almost immediately, then he woke me up when the train arrived, took me by the arm, and put me into a seat back home.

Good for him. I was in a similar situation in a German train station. My brother was the one who was passing out on the platform, and I was supposed to wake him up for the train. The police spotted us, and were, from what I could tell, dead set on sending my brother to the drunk tank rather than letting him get on the train. It became the only time in my life that I have ever run from the police, with a large man on my shoulder to boot. I pulled it off too- even managed a French Connection moment where I got to look them in the eyes as the door shut and the train left the station (I wasn't so bold as to wave).

Posted by Pulsator Organorum Ineptus (# 2515) on :

I was thrown out of a Chinese restaurant in 1976 because one of the group I was with kept snapping his fingers to summon the waiter.

On another occasion some friends and I were asked to leave a moorland pub after suggesting that the beer was, shall we say, not up to strength. It was 9 o'clock on a Saturday night, and in what was at one time a very popular pub, there were only 4 customers apart from ourselves. In fact, I can't be sure they were all customers - some of them might have been the landlord's family, come to think of it. It was very strange that it went on for some years with no visible custom to speak of. I can't help wondering if it was a money-laundering operation. It is now semi-derelict.

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

I got kicked out of a toy store for having a sword fight with my then 6 year old son in the aisle.

other than that, I think I'm pretty pristine.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

That's a pretty damn admirable reason to get kicked out of someplace, I have to say.

I am dimly remembering some silliness in a Baskin Robbins ice cream shop where my sis, her best friend and I were refused service-- they were flirting with the scoop boy and were so shit at it he read it as taunting.

[ 24. October 2012, 02:02: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
I was thrown out of a Bible study in my teens, I think for being the Antichrist. Something like that.

oh hey! I forgot - I attended exactly one meeting of the local girl scouts and when my mother came to get me she was asked that I not return. Other than quibbling over dues, I'm not sure what I did or said but I was quite the little authority challenger so chances are I questioned some important part of the GS or other. I do remember raising some question about the religious language in a vow or something.

Posted by comet (# 10353) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
That's a pretty damn admirable reason to get kicked out of someplace, I have to say.

I tried to tell them we were demonstrating the use of their wares and were therefore good for sales. it didn't fly.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

Fools.

Posted by chive (# 208) on :

I was thrown out of the guides for swearing which will surprise nobody.

I was also thrown out of a club in Aberdeen. I was extremely drunk and was leaving anyway when I went to reclaim my coat and threw up voluminously all over the coat check attendant. My own damn fault. Good thing I was never particularly keen on clubbing.

I was also thrown out of the church I was brought up in for being a little bit too gay for them. I was actually tried at a Kirk Session meeting which was somewhat humiliating. I find it entertaining that I'm now a Catholic and nobody turns a hair about my sexuality.

Posted by Chorister (# 473) on :

We were thrown out of a pub during a shipmeet for having a dog with us. (They did let us sit in the beer garden, though. But it was cold, and dark.)

Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :

I was thrown out of a pub once.
My boyfriend and I were driving from Brighton to Norfolk. We needed a comfort break and were both thirsty so we stopped at a roadside hostelry, possibly around Suffolk.
We ordered drinks and he visited the little boys room. When he returned I visited the little girls room and we settled down with our drinks.
At this the barmaid started screeching at us that we were only there for the loo and chucked us out! [Roll Eyes]

Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :

Karl asked.

quote:
Where was this? Seventh Church of the Apocalyptic roller skate?

No, public skating rink. When dear old Dad checked out why his daughter was sitting on the curb when he arrived to pick her up,
teen aged," Assistant Manager," said it was because I was wearing a tank top which was against the rules. No it was not a tank top it was a sleeveless blouse. Dad called the Manager the next day and got my money back for me. Still I was totally mortified as only a 12 year old can be.

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:
I was thrown out of a pub once.
My boyfriend and I were driving from Brighton to Norfolk. We needed a comfort break and were both thirsty so we stopped at a roadside hostelry, possibly around Suffolk.
We ordered drinks and he visited the little boys room. When he returned I visited the little girls room and we settled down with our drinks.
At this the barmaid started screeching at us that we were only there for the loo and chucked us out!

What was the point of throwing you out after you had used the loo?

Moo

Posted by Zacchaeus (# 14454) on :

quote:
Originally posted by angelica37:
I was reading through this thinking what a dull life I've led when I remembered I was actually ejected from a pub once. I was out with my parents and my three small children at the time, we stopped at a nice country pub by a river walked into the bar to order some food and were greeted by 'No children in here, outside!' so we went outside and went to the next village instead.

This has happened to me, I was with my daughter and baby grandaughter who was in a pram, and went into a village pub for food.

We were told that we couldn't take a child in the pub but could sit outside in the 'beer garden' it was cold and damp and full of smokers. We thought it wasn't a good idea to take a baby into a fume filled area....

Posted by HughWillRidmee (# 15614) on :

Four of us used to get "banned for life" at least once a month from the West Ealing Wimpy Bar. We could only assume that it was because the waitresses (we used to sit down to dawdle over a coke in those days) thought chatting to us preferable to clearing tables.

Guess who's job it was to persuade Wendy (the manageress) to let us back in after a few days.

Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Tree Bee:

We ordered drinks and he visited the little boys room. When he returned I visited the little girls room and we settled down with our drinks.
At this the barmaid started screeching at us that we were only there for the loo and chucked us out!

So, let me get this straight-- you actually purchased beverages and she still chucked you out?

What an idiot. You might have stuck around and bought more.

Posted by Squirrel (# 3040) on :

I was kicked out of a seedy bar in Brooklyn for being under age (only 15), back when the drinking age here was 18. The ironic thing was that just about everyone in the place was under age. If they had uniformly enforced that rule then the place would have been empty! Later I found out that one of my, errr... friends had ratted me out. I moved on to a higher class joint, one owned by an elderly woman who used to sleep in the place at night, and who tried seducing one of my friends.

Posted by Graven Image (# 8755) on :

Tree Bee did you take your drinks with you?

Posted by Mr Clingford (# 7961) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Graven Image:
Tree Bee did you take your drinks with you?

Unlikely, surely, as the containers (glasses) would belong to the pub.

Posted by Gee D (# 13815) on :

They could well have taken the drinks, if not the glasses in which they were served.

[ 25. October 2012, 08:56: Message edited by: Gee D ]

Posted by Tree Bee (# 4033) on :

We just scuttled out, angry and embarrassed . The pub was full of 'proper' customers staring at us.

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

I've been in a few places where it's been obvious that they prefer our place to our company, but never actively thrown out. But I always remember one odd instance of being refused service....

We were driving down from Kingston to Albany the Sunday after 9/11. Come lunchtime, we saw a sign on the highway advertising a restaurant in the next small town. Can't remember what it was called - it had a disconcertingly large industrial plant smack in the middle. Anyway, we found Mom's Diner, and it was mostly empty apart from one family being served a large meal, and a guy leaning on the bar. We tried sitting at a table for a while. I tried going up to the bar to see if perhaps you ordered from there. There were two waitresses, one ferrying plates to the occupied table - but it was when the other took to wiping tables in the furthest corner of the room in preference to giving us so much as eye contact that we realised we were not going to be eating here.

What was going on?

Posted by Moo (# 107) on :

Back in the 1950s I was traveling around Germany with a friend. We both developed bad colds, and one evening we decided to go to a place where they served alcohol, drink one stiff drink, and then go back to the place where we were staying.

We were very warmly dressed; there was nothing remotely sexy-looking about us, especially since we felt so lousy. We were turned away because the place would not admit women who were not accompanied by men.

Moo

Posted by Firenze (# 619) on :

You snuffling sirens, you! In your lewd overcoats and woolly hats!

Posted by Sandemaniac (# 12829) on :

I've been thrown off the track at Brands Hatch, which is pretty good considering that I've never driven a racing car!

The school I was at was a bit keen on running, and a group of us were entered in a "fun run" (years later I can wince at the ironic juxtaposition) there, though no-one seems to have read the small print and as a result I and another lad were fished forcefully off the circuit for being under-age. Possibly the slowest lap of the short circuit ever and, as a result, I've still never seen the outer circuit.

AG

Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on :

I got thrown out of a school music class once. My hearing doesn't work properly, so I've never been musical. Anyway, our school had a visiting music teacher, who decided that I was faking the poor hearing in order to be the class clown. I was chucked out of class, and told I'd be belted later. Fortunately she didn't carry out the threatened belting.

Posted by Arethosemyfeet (# 17047) on :

Mine makes me sound like such a nerd. When I was at university some of my fellow lefties and I would gatecrash finance meetings of the student union and pick faults with the budget and generally ask awkward questions. Come a new year and a new set of full time officers, carefully manipulated by the paid staff, the meeting became closed and we were ejected. The following year I was appointed to the committee myself.

Posted by Anna B (# 1439) on :

I was thrown out of my high-school library once. May I just say that the librarian, who bore an astonishing resemblance to an animated goose, had absolutely no sense of humor.

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