Yesterday I did something that I generally do not do… attend a car show. I brought the Charger because its more fun to drive than my 118,+++ mile Mercury Villager, however I had absolutely no intention of being judged and or entering the show.  We rolled up to the entrance, I paid my $20 bucks and told the attendant that I would like to pay to park on the show field as it was safer then parking in the standard lot, he said “ok” and we proceeded to park amongst the other cars. Now, at the entrance they generally give you a little card to fill out with your cars statistics but having no interest in being judged we just stuffed it in the glove box and proceeded to park. We then ran through the basic car show routine which is to buy a bottle of water and an overpriced pretzel and walk around to see the other cars.

We covered the show in about an hour and then proceeded to sit down with some friends and BS over what we had seen. No sooner did we sit down when I saw two judges scoping out the Charger. They looked over, under and around it logging little notes and their books and making comments to each other. Anyway, one of the judges noticed me notice him, came over and asked if I owned the car - “Sure do”, I said.  Then he asked where my information tag was and I explained to the judge that I had no interest in having the car judged and that we just came to see the other cars - this for some reason tweaked him a bit and he told me that if I did not get judged that I would not be able to get judged at any future show that was run by whatever the organization was that ran this show.

I told him that was fine and that again, I was only there to view the other cars. He then proceeded to tell me that he put a sticker on my windshield and took down my name in the record book so that if I did in fact try and attend another car show by this group that I would be ineligible for judging. When I explained that I didn’t care he got offended, wrote down another note in his little book, said a few words to one of the other judges, gave me the stink eye and walked away.

My question is, why would one do this? Why would you purposely ban someone from a show who had no intention of being in the show in the first place? If anyone out there can explain this to me please let me know because I don’t have a clue.

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