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dragonlady7am in sad strange mood and want to livejournal! but cannot, as servers are down.
so, shall compose this and then forget about it for hours and hours and when i post it i will laugh at it.
edited to add: Posted twenty-three hours after being composed.
Instead of whining, which will seem ridiculous when I post it in a little while when I no longer feel so strongly, I will instead divert myself by writing about something I have observed / learned as an employee of the airport.
When people go through airport security, they are often required to remove their shoes.
They then grumble about the stupid shoe bomber, whose fault it is that security personnell now inspect shoes.
This is a misconception. The x-raying of shoes has absolutely nothing to do with the shoe bomber. I will explain.
If you observe, they don't usually make people with sneakers on take them off. Why?
Most dress shoes, particularly those with a heel, contain a steel shank in the sole designed to lend stability to the shoe's sole.
Sneakers do not.
That is why dress shoes are removed: They set off the buzzer when you walk through, and so removing them and putting them through the x-ray means you're more likely to get through the upright people-beeper part without it going off. Which makes their job easier, as they don't then have to put you through it again.
Sneakers won't cause it to beep, and so they don't make you take them off. It's that simple.
The shoe bomber, by the way, was wearing sneakers.
So there's your Thought Of The Day, from an airport employee who gets screened daily. (Mmmmm... radiation.)
so, shall compose this and then forget about it for hours and hours and when i post it i will laugh at it.
edited to add: Posted twenty-three hours after being composed.
Instead of whining, which will seem ridiculous when I post it in a little while when I no longer feel so strongly, I will instead divert myself by writing about something I have observed / learned as an employee of the airport.
When people go through airport security, they are often required to remove their shoes.
They then grumble about the stupid shoe bomber, whose fault it is that security personnell now inspect shoes.
This is a misconception. The x-raying of shoes has absolutely nothing to do with the shoe bomber. I will explain.
If you observe, they don't usually make people with sneakers on take them off. Why?
Most dress shoes, particularly those with a heel, contain a steel shank in the sole designed to lend stability to the shoe's sole.
Sneakers do not.
That is why dress shoes are removed: They set off the buzzer when you walk through, and so removing them and putting them through the x-ray means you're more likely to get through the upright people-beeper part without it going off. Which makes their job easier, as they don't then have to put you through it again.
Sneakers won't cause it to beep, and so they don't make you take them off. It's that simple.
The shoe bomber, by the way, was wearing sneakers.
So there's your Thought Of The Day, from an airport employee who gets screened daily. (Mmmmm... radiation.)
