> From: Rita
> Organization: Road Runner - NYC
> Newsgroups: rec.travel.usa-canada
> Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 14:06:54 GMT
> Subject: Re: Taking off shoes at the airport
>
> 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.
Boat shoes, the kind with the white soles, sometimes called Docksiders,
Topsiders, or whatever, never make the metal detector ring. They are real
shoes, not bedroom slippers, so you can wear them without fear of being
embarrassed by somebody taking you for one of the Seven Dwarfs, Sleepy.
Donna Evleth
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