Major Win for Foot Health and Air Passengers

 

by Pa Rock

Infrequent Flyer

Don Trump has never had to remove his shoes in a public airport, and now, thanks to a Big Beautiful Bribe from the Qatari royal family, he will never have to.  Some of the young Field Marshals in his entourage, however, probably have been forced to go through the degrading process of taking their shoes off and placing them on a tray on a conveyor belt to be x-rayed as they, the shoes and the Field Marshals, are scanned by mechanical harbingers of a new world order.  

The mandatory removal of passengers' shoes and then forcing them to pad across the (often) nasty airport carpeting in stocking feet has been in place for almost twenty years, the result of ONE individual who unsuccessfully tried to walk onto a passenger plane with some sort of homemade explosive in ONE of his shoes.  That seemingly terroristic fizzle succeeded in slowing the boarding process of millions upon millions of airline passengers over the next two decades, a success the tinhorn anarchist could not have imagined in his wildest dreams.

But now that particular airport humiliation is history.  The TSA has announced that airline passengers will no longer be required to remove their shoes as a part of the boarding process.  The flying public may not be any safer, but at least they can travel in the comfort of not having to worry about what exotic vermin are laying eggs in their socks at 35,000 feet.

Small mercies.

Now that the issue of shoe removal has been resolved, maybe the airlines can start to address the many other flying injustices, such as baggage fees which can be almost as much as discounted tickets for humans - overbooking and overcrowding (in seating designed for anorexics), and unfriendly skies which are not adequately supervised by trained and certified air traffic controllers.

As long as we consent to being treated like cattle, we WILL BE treated like cattle.

(There are no middle seats on AmTrak.)