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Originally Posted by Frosstbyte
I haven't spent a lot of time in the US where face control was much of an issue, but when I lived in Moscow, it was just a fact of life everywhere we went all the time. Restaurants, bars, clubs, stores, hotels. If you didn't cut it, you didn't get in, period. That applied to clothing, grooming or simply how subjectively hot you were in the eyes of the bouncer (or, in our case, how American we looked=money in the bank).
People get cut out all the time for all kinds of fairly stupid reasons if you step back and look at it, but image is too important for businesses. They spend lots of time and pay lots of money to create and maintain their image and if they decide, for whatever reason, that you don't mesh with the image, they're wasting that time and money by keeping you around.
It was strange for me when I first ran into it, as I imagine it felt weird for you when they rejected you, but it's definitely out there and it's not as rare as you'd think, it just sometimes hangs out in places and ways that you don't expect.
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Huh. I've never heard of "face control". I don't think I'd want to go someplace that rejected people based on superficial factors like that. It isn't sour grapes so much as I'd feel out of place going anywhere knowing that others weren't allowed in merely because some bouncer didn't think they were good looking enough.
For example, when we used to live in LA, Grace once got us passes to eat at the Club 33 restaurant in Disneyland where her father's medical office has a corporate membership. I felt very uncomfortable there the whole time, as if it was a place that I didn't belong, knowing that I got in solely because of my association with Grace's family, who are the kind of people who belong in a place like that.
We haven't gone back since, instead using the public access restaurants that anybody can visit. That's where I belong. I don't want to be where I'm not wanted and not welcome.
Gilda