No cell phones in clubs

Searches... metal detectors... cell phone bans. Makes a man not want to bother anymore. I can get that shit at the airport.

I've always understood that what they really mean is for you not to use it while sitting down at your table inside the club, probably because they all got camera phones now. If you have to use the restroom, it's OK there, at least at the club I visit most. I can't say that's the way it is in all clubs, but it seems reasonable to me.

Mr_33... what happened to you is one of my bigger fears. That's why I never bring it in the club... I just leave it at home or in the car, along with anything other than car keys and cash.

But ya, their motive for banning them is absolutley camera/video phones.

My favorite club does not ban them. Most of the dancers carry them. Mine stays in my car. I don't want to be interrupted. Ever have a dancer answer a call during a lap dance? What really pisses me off. The music is so loud that they cannot hear so they go to the men's room. I hate taking a piss with some dude talking on his phone right behind me. That is rude.

Some clubs ban them or check them into lockers for custs and some smaller dive strip bars tend to not care let you bring them in. Bartenders and dancers always know the time, until they have to leave.

I found that my cell phone doesn't work in St. James. I don't know if it's the contruction, or something they installed. Houston Dolls, a dive right down the street, phone works fine.

woah, dude that stinks. its a shame that you were in a music store and they had the music cranked up so loud that you didnt realize that you placed a 6 minute call to your wife ;)

i have 2 fones, one is a flip, that one is pretty safe. the other is not. its a touch face, and and be answered without my realising it. and it has a gps. id hate for my boss to have to hunt me down...
"WHERE ARE YOU? your gps says..."

Heard of several incidents where a dancer got PO'ed and grabed a guys cel and threatened to call 'home' if guy didn't tip her.

Update: My wife came home and said "You butt-dialed me twice today" (from that commercial for the blackberry that flips closed).

mr_33,

You have to check back it here and let us know how you made out. No pun intended.

icedawg,

The cells I've had with GPS could all be disabled. I've heard that if you disable the GPS, a 911 call can still be tracked, however.

I go to clubs to get away from business pressures. A cell phone would keep me connected so I leave it in the car. Saw a guy talking on a cell phone during a LD. WTF! Hope that deal made him a millionare.

I think clubs that are strict in banning cell phones would probably be low mileage because of such strict management.

Issue one: unwanted outgoing calls. "Butt dialing" and "pocket dialing" are dangers. The keyboards on non-flip-close phones are supposed to have locks on them, but every single one of them that I've ever owned has somehow butt-dialed somebody anyway. I don't have a wife so I haven't ever outed myself in a manner I wouldn't want to happen, but I could see strip clubbing being something that would instigate unwanted butt action of some sort or another ... By the way, on most of the more recent models, there's probably a way to set a "notification profile" that would exclude 100% of outgoing calls until a key-sequence is input or the profile is changed or something, so you could just remember to set it to that ... unless you want to wait, and then bother with the finer details of technological programming while you're focused on a hottie grinding your weenie, that is. :)

Issue two: Plenty of clubs that I frequent have signs that say "no cell phones" and, obviously, they're out to reduce the pictures and videos that people could take of the girls. I am not against that idea at all, because, if I could take a cell-phone video in a club of a girl naked on stage and make her life miserable, then, by same token, someone ELSE could take a cell-phone video OF ME in the club and make MY life miserable. Nevertheless, I bring my cell phone (it's a latest model Blackberry, with all the bells and whistles) into the clubs quite often. Nobody hassles me about it, as long as I keep it in my lap when I decide to use it. I check for text-messages, emails, and whether or not voice messages have come in. I guess I could tilt it and start taking pictures. And, on more than one occasion, I've found a badly out-of-focus mug shot of me, or of a stripper, or of the two of us cuddling up, about three weeks later, filed neatly in my photos folder on my cell phone. Then I go, "Oh yeah, I did get the camera out when she and I were playing late in the morning!" I don't mind, as long as I'm the one who got home with the picture to delete it!