Banned from a Mcdonalds

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Go to another McDonalds.

Being banned from a location can harm your ego, but you can move on. Avoid trouble and stay away from that McDonalds.

When you go any place where there are people always ask yourself if you are doing anything that bothers them. Back in the 90s, I almost got kicked out of a concert by a pair of police officers for pacing around the lobby way too much.

Being banned from a church or mosque would be a badge of honor for me.

How does one even get banned from a McDonald's? A persons behaviour would have to be pretty terrible to achieve that, I would imagine.

I imagine if you dressed up like the Hamburglar and ran in and started grabbing Big Macs, that'd do it.

I'd love to be banned from a McDonalds. I'd tell everyone.

^Showing my age with that Hamburglar reference.

I think getting banned from a McDonalds is a life achievement. You can use it to spice up your autobiography.

If you don't get banned from some place, then I have to wonder, are you even living? We all need to get banned some place in my opinion.

My Dad when he was alive got banned from Borders bookstore. He was a big Liberal and would go in and chat up the store clerks and fish for any complaints about their working conditions. Like, they need a break, or need a chair to sit in, or need more days off, or a pay increase, things like that. Oppression by The Man. Then the manager would come out and ask him to quit bothering the clerks and tell him to leave. Eventually, he was banned from the store.

My brother and I laughed over that. It was something because he bought a ton of books from Borders.

I kept on going, because my Mother when she was alive loved to go to Borders and have the strawberry frappuzzi (sp?). I would take her there and buy her her favorite treat and leave a big tip for the lady at the counter.

I imagine one would have to do something quite inappropriate to be banned from a McDonalds.
Have to believe there is more to the OP's post than they are letting on.

I myself was unofficially 'banned' from a drug store for a period of roughly one month until the matter was resolved.
What happened was that about a year ago, on one particular day while browsing the store (I had shopped there for a few years and was a regular customer) I was suddenly berated by a store employee and accused of theft.

(I suspect this employee had seen me often in the store browsing and was suspicious of my behaviour. It was true that I often browsed in the store, perhaps one or two days per week for about 5 minutes at a time, and then left without making any purchases. I still was making regular purchases of at least once per week to 10 days at a time.)

The employee was screaming and yelling at me to leave in front of other staff and customers. I was shocked and because I had committed no theft, I told them they were crazy. I did though have to leave because if I hadn't, the police could have been called and it would have been the stores right to tresspass me.

It took a number of phone calls with the company headquarters and an eventual in person meeting with the actual store manager over a month later to explain what I experienced and seek a resolution.

I demanded an apology from this employee (which I never received) and some form of compensation.
I received a $50 gift card for the inconvenience.

I'm going to add another personal experience relevant to this discussion.

I was diagnosed in 2018 as having autism. I then found out about the local autism organization in my community
and decided to give a few of their support/social events an opportunity.

Well, I found one meeting to be structured in such a way that I felt was not very productive, so I offered my thoughts.
I did so in a way that I thought was polite and non intrusive. My intentions were positive.

Well, when I went back to the same meeting a few weeks later, the host said I was banned. I had never received any indication I was banned. I asked why. The host was obviously very uncomfortable with my presence and saw the fact I had proposed changes to the meeting format as a threat to her position running the meetings.

I decided that enough was enough and I would voluntarily leave if it was coming to this point. I then emailed the autism organization and asked them to compensate me for my time and provide gas money for my travel to the meetings

Of course I knew that was unlikely to happen, but I didn't care.

I believe that after I sent this email the organization removed me from their email lists, though I still never recieved any formal indication that I was banned.

A few years passed before I met someone who was connected to this organization and they recommended I give it another chance.

I did, though i had to go through an 'intake process' which was essentially a virtual meeting that took perhaps 10-15 minutes. I was told that I had made comments previously that were offensive in my last email (I admit to using the r word to vent my frustration) .

Anyways, the long story short is the organization seemed to forgive me and I have since participated in various events without incident. (though I am by no means a regular or consistent attendee, I am more of a two-three times per year attendee)

I got kicked out of a donut shop once. I was on my way to karate class and was barefoot. The owner of the store saw me coming and met me at the door. He was a former NFL defensive linesman and made it very clear that I could not go in there without my shoes or boots.

Of course, it wasn't a ban. The next day I was there as usual wearing shoes and he didn't kick me out again.