Originally Posted by yolers
I wear thin flip flops to avoid having to take off my shoes....however in ORD they made me take them off. Really, though? I can't even fit a matchstick in the sole let alone anything else.
ORD, terminal 2, Wednesday morning: "Sir, your shoes need to come off."
"I did exactly what I always do, smile sweetly and say "I'll take the secondary, thanks." He gives me this death glare and yells "MALE ASSIST, FULL!" and I go to the wanding moat. The entire process takes 2 minutes and I get to gum up the works, make them work harder, and generally inconvenience everyone a little. If we all simply refused to remove shoes and asked for the secondary, the lines would stretch around the block and things WOULD change.
Screeners like this get really sore when you don't blindly obey their unique interpretation of the law and their own SOP. I always get there early enough to give them a run for their money.
On the other side of the coin, I am finding fewer and fewer mouth-breathing, gum cracking, grunting, knuckle-dragging apes in white shirts at the checkpointes these days. Apparently after hiring damn near everybody in sight who couldn't get a job anywhere else, they are culling the jerks and leaving the reasonable (and at times a lot of fun) employees.
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