Hygiene: Can I request not to take my shoes off?
The thought of walking over that filthy floor in my socks is horrible. Plus, I have a plantar wart on the bottom of one of my feet, although it'd be covered by the socks.
While we're on the subject, is there any way to avoid putting my expensive suit jacket into that disgusting, never-cleaned gray box which everyone's shoes have been in? |
I too find the shoe take off thing disgusting. I haven't raised much of a fuss about it, though I do mumble how gross it is while waiting for them to come out of the x ray.
I tend to take them off at the very last second, I don't take them off well far back in the line like the sheeple. Also, if the xray is far from the wtmd, I do sometimes mention this is disgusting to the TSO, in a nice way. The more they get the message, the more the slight possibility this unsanitary practice will end. |
Originally Posted by PHLflying
(Post 8113742)
I tend to take them off at the very last second, I don't take them off well far back in the line like the sheeple. Also, if the xray is far from the wtmd, I do sometimes mention this is disgusting to the TSO, in a nice way. The more they get the message, the more the slight possibility this unsanitary practice will end. The TSO's are just sheep too. We should make KH take off his shoes and walk around in the filth he calls airport security. |
Originally Posted by nigelloring
(Post 8113699)
While we're on the subject, is there any way to avoid putting my expensive suit jacket into that disgusting, never-cleaned gray box which everyone's shoes have been in?
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Originally Posted by party_boy
(Post 8113761)
The TSO's are just sheep too. We should make KH take off his shoes and walk around in the filth he calls airport security.
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Originally Posted by LLM
(Post 8113775)
Or you could bring a large plastic bag to protect it.
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Will the screeners allow little blue paper booties for the feet - like the ones you sometimes see at 'Open-houses' or at hospitals? Maybe that would satisfy OPs footwear issue.
DD |
Originally Posted by Daringdoo
(Post 8114348)
Will the screeners allow little blue paper booties for the feet - like the ones you sometimes see at 'Open-houses' or at hospitals? Maybe that would satisfy OPs footwear issue.
DD |
Originally Posted by Daringdoo
(Post 8114348)
Will the screeners allow little blue paper booties for the feet - like the ones you sometimes see at 'Open-houses' or at hospitals? Maybe that would satisfy OPs footwear issue.
DD
Originally Posted by LLM
(Post 8113775)
Last time I brought paper towels to put on the bottom of the bin. Or you could bring a large plastic bag to protect it.
Safe travels Tim |
The "temple socks" I used in SE Asia are now my "(in)security socks." Just can't do summer/sandal weather without them. If you see someone dancing around on one foot putting on socks as she approaches the belt, that would likely be me.
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Originally Posted by PHLflying
(Post 8113742)
I too find the shoe take off thing disgusting. I haven't raised much of a fuss about it, though I do mumble how gross it is while waiting for them to come out of the x ray.
I tend to take them off at the very last second, I don't take them off well far back in the line like the sheeple. Also, if the xray is far from the wtmd, I do sometimes mention this is disgusting to the TSO, in a nice way. The more they get the message, the more the slight possibility this unsanitary practice will end. |
Originally Posted by n5667
(Post 8114868)
I always remind the passenger that they're about to spend several hours in a tin can with several hundred other people breathing in recirculated oxygen... ;)
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Originally Posted by Daringdoo
(Post 8114348)
Will the screeners allow little blue paper booties for the feet - like the ones you sometimes see at 'Open-houses' or at hospitals? Maybe that would satisfy OPs footwear issue.
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Originally Posted by nigelloring
(Post 8113699)
The thought of walking over that filthy floor in my socks is horrible. Plus, I have a plantar wart on the bottom of one of my feet, although it'd be covered by the socks.
While we're on the subject, is there any way to avoid putting my expensive suit jacket into that disgusting, never-cleaned gray box which everyone's shoes have been in? |
Originally Posted by doober
(Post 8115508)
Providing that you are wearing a substantial pair of shoes and not loafers or flip-flops, just tell them you have orthopedic shoes and can't take them off. You'll have to get them swabbed but they can't force you to remove them NOR require you to explain the reason for wearing "orthopedic" shoes. Works for me.
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