Originally Posted by Boraxo
Query: For those who get SSSS, do you always refuse to remove shoes at the checkpoint? Why bother, as you are going to be inconvenienced anyway.

It's only happened once to me so far (Grand Rapids, MI) and they didn't even bring up the subject of shoes. I walked through, didn't alarm, so they just took a swab and that was it as far as the shoes were concerned.