Remember the post from last year where my son and I saw a shoeless woman getting on our plane? We thought she had maybe forgotten to pick up her shoes after they went through the inspection tunnel. Or was she just headed to Florida? We never found out. Well, the first instance should not happen again. A law is in the works where we will not have to take our shoes off in the airports anymore. What a relief for the employees to not have to deal with our shoes. It always seemed like the shoes heated up in the tunnel. Gross! But those tunnels always made me hungry for Quizno’s…
There were changes to the inspection policy over the years. I know at one point, if you were over 70 you didn’t have to take off your shoes. I would have based the inspection on the size of the shoe. Say, if you’re bigger than a size 10 men’s shoe or comparable women’s size, you would need to run your shoes through the tunnel. Logic being that it’s easier to hide a bomb in the larger shoes. They’d have a separate line for people with big feet.
I guess the downfall of my plan is that sometimes men wear women’s shoes and women sometimes wear men’s shoes. The shoe sizes get confusing. Would there be a separate line just for those folks?