Being Refused Entry.

It always stings just a little when you find yourself shut out without warning. There’s a blog you check into every day because you like what it says and you like the person saying it. And then one day you get the dreaded white screen with the message that says:

This blog is open to invited readers only. It doesn’t look like you’ve been invited…

To make matters worse, the browser tab says:

Permission Denied.

It isn’t actually writ in throbbing red neon letters, but it looks that way.

And to make matters even worse, you remember that the last comment left on that blog before it locked its doors against the unwelcome horde was yours, and so you wonder whether the two facts are connected.

I could say that it’s like going home as a kid and finding the door locked, but that never happened to me. I could say that it’s like being banned from the local pub, but that never happened to me either (I got thrown out of one for being objectionable once, but there were plenty more in the vicinity.) So it isn’t like anything really, except being barred from a favourite blog. It still stings just a little.