Anyone who knows me in real life knows that I'm a serious clean freak. I FREAK OUT when people wear shoes exposed to the outside world in my house...what if they stepped on poop in March 2009!??!! That's still gotta be on their shoe, doesn't it?! I don't want it in my house!

Anyways, yeah, I'm THAT bad. I am meticulously organized & I clean my living quarters all the time & I want things to stay clean. The best way to prevent having to clean a lot is to have things be clean in the first place.

Well, needless to say, the "take your shoes off in the security line" bit of theatre REALLY gets to me. The TSOs keep walking around in shoes! What if they have poop on the bottom of their shoes or something? Or worse...

On my last few flights, I've tended to wear socks that were on their last legs through security & then I just threw them out in the garbage before putting on clean socks I kept in my carry-on. Other times, I just put the contaminated socks in a plastic bag in my carry-on where I kept clean socks: I just switched them out & washed them on arrival to my destination.

Recently, however, I've wondered: what if I buy those construction worker or medical booties you can buy at Home Depot? That way, I won't have to contaminate my socks with who knows what's on the ground by the security line. Would TSA allow me to go through wearing booties? Have others done this?

Just wondering. Thanks in advance!