Originally Posted by macska
Dovey:
Are you shoes thin-soled? Like flyergirl, I've had good luck with thin-soled shoes. (Cross-fingers). Anywhere even close to 1 inch and they will make you take them off one way or another.
While I'm not Dovster, just chiming in here to say you may want to check out the Travel Security forum. There's a long thread there with a list of airports where TSA basically requires everyone, no matter how thin-soled the shoe, to remove their shoes. So far, I've been lucky everywhere I've been when slipping into flip-flops at the checkpoint, but I also fly through JFK instead of EWR, which appears to be the worst by far.