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The pub that changed me: ‘The barman banned me – no process, no second chances, no appeal’

改变了我的酒吧:“酒保禁止我——没有程序,没有第二次机会,没有申诉”

Zoe Williams at the Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate.

Zoe Williams at the Royal Victoria Pavilion in Ramsgate.

2026-01-15  548  中等
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Anyway, it was during the rule-of-six phase of Covid, I was there with the kids and meeting a family of four, so we were seven. The barman said we had to break it up, and I tried to persuade them that seven people is the same as six, indeed, if four are children, that’s effectively two adults, so there were only five of us. He insisted, so we made the kids go and sit somewhere else, but the guy said, “No, your households have to sit on separate tables.” We thought we could fix that by making the kids sit outdoors. We were really just messing about at this point to see the look of outrage on their little faces, when the barman said something no one’s ever said to me before: “You’re barred.”

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