<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by iluv2fly:
I certainly wasn't going to find out.
After refusing to remove my shoes in SFO a few weeks ago (and I DID NOT beep), I was sent to the secondary screening area. When I took off my shoes to have them checked, the screener asked me to stand on the mat with my feet in the footprints. I told him that I would not do that until my shoes were returned. He said that it would delay me a little more, but that he would do that if I so desired.
This whole shoe thing is ridiculous.
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I did the same thing in OAK. The screener was not happy about it though and promptly called a supervisor over to tell her what I wanted. She just stared at him and said "then screen his shoes and give them back". When I finished, I asked her if she thought I was being unreasonable and she just told me that the screened didn't understand that some people don't want to stand on a dirty floor.
More likely, he was not used to someone telling him that they were not going to do it his way!