Ever been refused service at a restaurant?

[Partridge]

Before this recent brouhaha with Sarah Huckabee Sanders being refused service, I was thinking about the time I was refused service at a restaurant- back when I was a student at Clemson University and was refused service at the Waffle King restaurant in nearby Pendleton, SC.

Has anyone else here been refused service, and why?

[Deleted]

Way back when, my grandmother,my brother and I were asked to leave a Chinese restaurant. The waiter kept bringing the wrong order, and out of frustration and embarrassment told us to get out.

[the Scribe]

Not at a restaurant but the University president of my Kentucky college (undergrad) to my face asked me (but really told me) "Why don't you people from New York, New Jersey and the North JUST STAY in your own states for school? Go back. We don't want you here." I then proceeded to tell him he didn't seem to mind taking my out of state money, smiled at him while he was insulting me and then he slammed his office door behind me as I left. Evidently some townsfolk were in the office waiting area listening to his boisterous rants against some student (me) and by the time I walked downtown to buy the Playboy interview with Linda (less than 15 minutes later) the store owners and others were in a group talking about it lol. Funny how that works. By the way, they were on my side and thought he was an awful man. I didn't tell them it was me but by the time I made it to my workstudy job that evening I got called into the bosses office and was fired for some lame excuse. The classified staff that worked there (school cafeteria) were furious and gave me free meals the rest of my college days there. That college president was very Trump like. A real narcissist bully that treated his staff horribly. The drumbeat we hear from one side of the aisle is how liberal universities are and the kids are being brainwashed but it is worse the other way around in the South and red states for Northern students. The Civil War never ended for many there. I think that may be part of the reason I became so political. Even with all that I loved my time there and especially loved the southern people who were the salt of the Earth. The conservative plantation elite however were another story.

[Tony]

I was thinking of the Waffle King incident because I found myself in Pendleton recently when I met an older half-sister that I did not know existed.

My incident happened in 1975. Waffle King was then a 24-hour restaurant so 4 of use decided to go out for breakfast at about 2 AM. The minute we walked in the door (the place was empty) the man behind the counter yelled at us "Get out! Get out! I don't want your kind in here."

So we got out. We were wondering what kind he thought we were. There was me, a baseball player, my stoner roommate, and the ladies' man- four unique individuals. We went back to the dorm still hungry. My roommate, who did not have the best connection to reality, did not take it very well. He was pissed.

This restaurant had a separate game room with a pool table and some other stuff. My roommate went back to the restaurant, entered through the back entrance, destroyed the pool table, and escaped undetected.

[the Scribe]

How you discovered an older half sister you never knew existed is a story in itself?

I don't know what years you were in college but my incident happened in 1972 and a lot of us northerners had long hair (even longer than in that pic of me and Linda to the left which was taken a few months earlier) and many people considered us hippies which are of course supposed Liberals. (which I was) At the time the majority of southerners coming from their homes to college had short hair. I think that is where the term red neck came from. Ironically, ten years later most people cut their long hair off and the red necks grew out theirs.

[Dianna]

Great stories !!!! Not for my beliefs or political leanings but the manager at the Walmart in Buena Park, Ca asked me to leave after arguing with him about an exchange without a receipt.. it wasn't mine, it was my brothers then girlfriend (I forget what the item was) he wouldn't let up.. he got nasty, then I called him some names and then he asked me to leave.. so I left (he tried to escort me out big mistake on his part) lol. then I went to the Walmart in Anaheim to exchange.. lol