On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 17:01:12 +0300, Binyamin Dissen
wrote:
>:>>:>I have a pair of shoes that I had never been told to take off. All of
>:>>:>a sudden, one time I did. It was really fun with a bad back and a bad
>:>>:>knee to try to balance to get off double knotted shoes. When I told
>:>>:>the agent I'd never had to take them off before, she told me that
>:>>:>there were new rules and if I set off the detector, I'd have to go
>:>>:>through the full search and it would be at least 15 minutes.
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>:>>B*llsh*t.
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>:>>It doesn't take more than a few minutes.
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>:>>Also, in EWR they will do a secondary search even if you do not set off
>:>>anything.
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>:>>:>I have not had to take off the same shoes at 3 different airports
>:>>:>since then.
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>:>>Do it in the secondary inspection. You have a chair, they take the shoes and
>:>>bring them back.
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>:>Wear shoes that slip on and off easily when flying and pack
>:>the others in a carry-on that goes through the Xray machine.
>:>You can change back on the plane.
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>I prefer wearing good shoes when going in uncontrolled areas.
Use your head. Sit down in an airport chair before entering
the screening area and change to a cheap pair of bedroom slippers,
walk a few yards to the screening area and go through. Once
through, find a seat in the closest boarding area and change.
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>You are free to choose your own path.
I think you like complaining more than simple problem solving.
I prefer to make it easy on myself.
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>:>I don't see why people sweat this stuff. We have to live with it,
>:>might as well use one's head to make it easy on oneself.
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>As I have, by doing the secondary.
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>You are free to use your way, that of bending over and spreading wide.
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