…or didn’t.
I thought that after hitting 18, and getting my driving licence, the likelyhood of me being refused entry to a bar was minimal. I’m always impeccably dressed when on the town, and am generally a nice person. However, Saturday night was not the case.
We were queuing to get into this place at about 11pm. I was relatively sober, and was parching for more beer. There was a little queue, but nothing too big, when this bouncer came over and asked us a question:
“’scuse me lads, are you all together?”
“Yep”
“Well we can’t let you in.”
“Why not?”
“Because there’s more than three of you. Only let groups of lads in in threes.”
Only in groups of threes? I’ve never heard that one before. Nevertheless, I countered with a true statement that hopefully would prove to the guy that we were out for a good time. A brave statement that could win any arguement.
“But we’re LOVELY!!!!”
He wasn’t having any of it. We couldn’t get into the pub. It looked nice too, though. No groups of men in there.
It makes me sounds like I hated Manchester, when I really didn’t. It was good fun! We ended up in a (slightly) less pretentious place and drank plenty of Boddingtons and Hofbrau, which was the beer I drunk at Oktoberfest. I was able to reflect on the beer better there, and found out it was 6.75%. Christ no wonder I was wasted.
But the fact still remains. Why were we refused entry to a place simply because we were men? And what’s the stupidest reason you’ve ever been refused entry into a bar for?
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
Never been refused entry from a bar. The best entry I ever got into a bar was a few weeks ago. I went to a place in fullham and we were on the guestlist. A group of girls before us got Id’d but when it came to us the guy looked at us and said nahh you’re all alright go in. So I said (mockingly) wha? No you’re supposed to ask us ofr ID because we look so young! The bouncer than said ok show me your ID to me. Which I did naturally, and he said Hmmm not only do you have a really cool name but you share the same birthday as me so you’re coming in for free! i was thrilled! Normally I get in free because they like my boobs.
I was out drinking in Manchester as well - but then I was surrounded with women.
I can see why they only let three men at a time in. There’s a certain preponderance of chavvy violent scumbags especailly on a Saturday night in Manchester…
I got refused from bars in Cardiff because of my shoes, and because I wasn’t wearing posh clothing. Grrr.
Well, I once got refused entry because of my Oakley shoes. Actually, those shoes were refused many times. But the reason I went to that particular bar was because of their fairly lax dress policy. I was going off my nutter at them. Especially since I was impeccably well dressed, and wasn’t all that drunk (again, another reason for going there… big pints.)
But shit hit the fan when some skatey looking chick who looked like she had just pulled her clothes from the Goodwill bin walked in wearing bright red Converse All-Stars.
The bouncer really didn’t like me, and even tried to outsmart me with words… again, I wasn’t all that drunk, so I out done him on words. He asked his supervisor, he looked and was like, “Pfft, yeah no worries..” So I got in, drank two beers (I was thirsty) and left on principle.
I cudn’t get into a club a few weeks back coz my sister stumbled (was pushed and also was actually quite drunk) into the manager of the place; which i guess is understandable. We also got ID’d about 5 months ago in Liverpool AFTER the barman had done the drinks. We had no ID and just walked out. Bar ppl r silly aren’t they.
I’ve been refused entry for being too darn attractive a few times. They didn’t want me attracting all the women in the club!
The only other times I’ve been refused were when my boss was too hammered to get in and threatened the bouncer! Classic!
Ian
I am not a bar/club guy, but that sounds like pretty standard policy for letting people in at night. Women, and especially hot ones, get priority.
I have been refused entry for the same reason. In the end we went to a different pub, talked to some girls and explained that we needed them to come with us so we could get into the other pub. They bought it !!
I also remember being in a group of 8, and I was the youngest (24 at the time). Most of the group were 28+. The bar had an age limit of 21 and we joked with the bouncer that he didn’t really need to see anyone’s ID as we were obviously old enough to get in. So he decided it would be funny to ID the entire group. We all got in though.
Yeah that happens a lot, got refused entry in Manchester and London before because it was a group of lads (by group i mean more than 3!).
Was once refused entry to a bar in Boston because my shirt didn’t have a collar. Thing is every other person in there had a T-Shirt on! When i pointed that out to the bouncer he called a police man over and we were asked to leave.
It was a lesbian bar. A bar for lesbians.
I used to be a doorman in Manchester 20 odd years ago. We used to knock back groups of young men because contrary to what you might have heard, we liked having a quiet night. You may argue that you don’t start fights. I know you don’t ‘cos you got knocked back!