On Sun, 05 Jun 2005 19:27:59 +0200, Donna Evleth
wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 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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>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.
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I have some slip-on shoes made of canvas that also don't trigger
an alarm. I prepare for the security screening by not wearing a
belt with metal buckle, placing watch and all coins, etc., in my
bag and wearing a jacket that is easy to remove.
The U.S. government recently posted some ways security checks
could be speeded up -- a way to automate the plastic bin recovery
so airport employees don't have to waste time stacking them back
up, have more screening machines, etc. The article said that as it
is now, the Xray equipment is dormant 30% of the time.
Anything passengers can do to help speed up the process by
preparing ahead of time only will be to their own advantage.
But I don't think one need be embarrassed at all by what one
wears flying these days -- people I've seen seem to dress
solely for comfort and who cares what they wear on the airplane?
The only thing that really seems to annoy passengers is another
passenger making a scene of some sort at the security check
or fumbling around too long in removing jacket, shoes, etc.
Finally, with slip off shoes one could carry a pair of those
bedsocks and put them on -- that's for those who complain the
floors are filthy and they don't want their own stockings to
touch the floor. |