.. having said that.....

About 15 years ago on a visit to Taunton, we thought we'd give their club a try for an evening pint..

We were stopped in our tracks by a closed security door and intercom system. [maybe even CCTV cameras?]
The jobsworth in charge refused to accept our memberships & credentials**
as valid enough, so refused to let us in...???

[**Me being ex civil service, and my dad ex airforce national service]

Seemed a right bunch of touchy snobs.. maybe they were officers ???

Then again, with the barracks near town, maybe they were over paranoid, and we looked too much like undesirables...???

But that was Taunton...