But what was most amazing were the repeated requests that passengers return to the security checkpoint to pick up shoes that they had left behind. Umbrellas I can understand easily. Laptops are more tragic, though similarly understandable. But shoes? How do you just walk off without your shoe? More amazing are the people who seem to walk off with one shoe but not the other, though this could be the TSA employees not bothering to look around for a mate.

The women in Starbucks aprons would sell me a bagel with cream cheese, but had no answers. They weren't in fact even that interested in the question, prefering to discuss the woman who recently tried to put a baby through the x-ray machine at another airport. I told them I saw a woman put a cat through an x-ray machine once. They were unimpressed.
posted by weiss @ 6:42 PM