Just a quick hint, from the “Laptop Lane” (quiet!) in the Cincinnati airport: don’t attempt to fly in these security-conscious times while wearing shoes containing metal plates. I think they should start marking shoes “Airport Friendly!” so we’ll know.
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I feel sorry for my friend who has some kind of metal prosthetic things in his feet to correct his falling arches. He must go through hell at every airport/school/govenrment function. I used to have this very small pocket knife that belonged to my grandfather. I’d carry it around, mostly for nostalgic purposes, and in case I ever needed something handy to open those impossible plastic cases they cover small electronic devices with. Anyway, every goddamn time I would go somewhere with a metal detector, they would make me walk all the way back to the car to put away a two-inch pocket knife. I’m not kidding, two freaking inches. Well, during the 2000 presidental campaign, Al Gore came to speak at my college in New Orleans. When I went to see him, sure enough, I forgot the metal detectors and brought the pocket knife. When the Secret Service Agent’s wand set it off, he took out the kinfe, opened it, closed it, gave it back to me and said, “You wouldn’t be able to hurt him with that. You’d just make him mad.” A week later, a high school student in a town near New Orleans was expelled from public school for carrying a pocket knife with her on campus.
Great idea on the shoes. On my latest trip, I purposely went with the plastic shoes instead of the comfortable boots with metal eyelets, but still got pulled aside for a random check. But at least the metal detector didn’t go off.