Perhaps pilots can get away with it but I can't. I used to do this to avoid touching the sides, figuring one less false alarm will be one less secondary in my lifetime. A really nice TSA guy asked why I walked that way, understood my reason, did not secondary, and then was nice enough to suggest not doing so in the future to save my self trouble, know what I mean?, which I interpret to mean it is a suspicious behavior they look for. Either that or they hate a knowledgeable customer who knows how their toys work. Only FTers and real terrorists know about that touching thing, right? No law abiding citizen would want to know about how a WTMD works, right comrade? A third grader can do a google on "WTMD" for a science report, but apparently TSA does not know about google yet.

I assume the SSI approved walk, no scooting, is the best imitiation of a once a decade sheeple vacation flyer who is bumbling around like a lost puppy who has never been thru the maze before and is clueless about the process. Ignorance is power as seen by the TSA. Sigh.