Nothing better than being on a trip, tossing your possessions aside, kicking off your shoes, slowing the day’s rush and getting a professional rub-down. No, not the hotel. I’m talking about going through airline security.
For decades now, air travelers have had to remove all sorts of inconvenient clothing items to get on an airplane, including their shoes, for security purposes.
All this, because one tortoise-brained, recessive-gened under-achieving bonehead tried to blow up an airplane with a bomb IN HIS SHOE. This would have been almost 20 years ago. He failed, presumably because his feet were ticking. Now, everybody has had to remove their shoes before boarding as a check. Of course, exceptions are children under 12 years and people over 75 years who forgot to wear shoes.
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