SATTSO

Gentleman? Who said we were talking about gentlemen? I thought we were talking about passengers?

Spiff

I'd have my shoes on before then and I use the roller table post x-ray, where you do not paw through others' bags.

SATTSO

You can say whatever you want. Personally, I am very appreciative of the job I have, and how it is supported by public taxes. It's one reason why I treat people the way I do, and hold up other employees to a high standards - I have almost gotten in trouble for calling-out employees for being rude or lazy at work in front if passengers. No not professional of me, but those employs need to know how they treat people is wrong - and the passenger needs to see someone on my side recognize it and not accept it.

And if you don't realize, it is very possible to ask people to remove their feet from a table in a kind, polite way.

Gotcha. However, not sure if your familiar with SAT, but without having been there for that incident today, I'm positive that the OP put their feet on an ETD table.

Spiff

I stay off those as they're too far down the line.

sctn8gp

i'd have to side with tsa on this one. putting your nasty-just-walked-thru-a-urine-soaked-bathroom shoes on the screening table where my belongings are about to rifled through by a tsa goon is something i'd rather not see.

Spiff

Then shoes should remain on passengers' feet where they belong.

mikemey

In the same vein, I don't wanna put my sock feet where your urine soaked shoe bottoms have been before you put the shoes in the bin.

If the shoes remain on our feet, like the rest of the world does it, then no problem.

ND Sol

Would that metal table be at the end of the line from the x-ray machine or would it be separate from it? If the former, then I would agree with the OP and if the latter, then I would agree with SATTSO.

DevilDog438

+1 - I stand right where the exit feed cage dumps out to the open rollers. My shoes are the second item through (my backpack being first) and are removed from the belt and placed on my feet usually about the time my laptop bin (my third item through) is passing out of the x-ray machine. I get "scolded" by BWI TSO to "move down, so that other people may use the space" almost every time I fly, which I ignore.

I will move away from the outfeed once my shoes are on my feet and ALL of my items are under my definitive control. If the TSO wants to call a damn LEO for that, good for them. It is certainly within their power to do so (note to several posters on here, I said power, not right, as government personnel do not have rights when acting under color of authority).

DevilDog438

Then don't fly, since those nasty-just-walked-thru-a-urine-soaked-bathroom shoes have also been either in the bins you are using or on the belt your stuff was just on anyway...

sctn8gp

true, but the things taken from my bag and put on the screening table have a better chance of ending up in my mouth than my laptop, shoes, or carry-on.

mikemey

Now imagine those nasty shoes and my CPAP equipment touching it.

Sufficiently skeeved out yet?

sctn8gp

no argument here with that! ^

doober

Did it ever occur to you that people might not want to walk even a few feet shoeless on the filthy floors?

Spiff

Or remove their shoes at all to satisfy irrational TSA perversity?