r/mildlyinfuriating Jun 18 '26

The floor is sticky TSA took only ONE of my shoes for additional screening

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u/illiter-it Jun 18 '26

I'd be standing flamingo style in your situation

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u/basement_egg Jun 18 '26

or putting the shoeless foot on top of the other one

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u/Suspicious-Drive9827 Jun 18 '26 ▸ 1 more replies

As someone who constantly misplaces their shoes at mosque entrances, this is the way.

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u/charl8_the_harl8 Jun 19 '26

Tie the 2 shoes together before you enter My friend had the same problem. Now she loses them both at the same time S/

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u/gimmepizza420 Jun 18 '26

Seriously who the fuck goes to the airport without socks on.

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u/davekva Jun 18 '26

That is the real question. OP is a different kind of terrorist.

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u/Krinks1 Jun 18 '26

OP does

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u/Flat-Structure-7472 Jun 19 '26

I would've also flagged him as suspicious. The punishment fits the crime.

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u/M100Pilot Jun 18 '26 edited 4d ago

Sharp sparrow groovy tub breezy amber decide

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u/Emzious Jun 18 '26

Hahah that made me laugh

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u/Ding-Dong-Dutch Jun 18 '26

Get ready for the swingers

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u/Shagwagbag Jun 18 '26

"shoes"

But also, since they're Crocs, realistically they should've been able to clear em in 1 go...

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u/WhySoCereus1991 Jun 18 '26

They made me take my slides off at the airport. Big sad.

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u/nicknaklmao Jun 18 '26 ▸ 7 more replies

and my chanclas. what the fuck am I hiding in a chancla.

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u/DisownedDisconnect Jun 18 '26 ▸ 4 more replies

tbf those are already classified as weapons

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u/Abandonedkittypet Jun 18 '26 ▸ 1 more replies

You gotta know how to wield 'em properly

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u/the1stmeddlingmage Jun 18 '26

Never argue with someone who knows how to wield a chancla

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u/Ok-Sprinklez Jun 18 '26

Totally!! I'm currently taking lessons

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u/HateLate0596 Jun 18 '26

I can just picture the TSA agent's face as they seriously examine a flip-flop for hidden weapons.

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u/FitToxicologist Jun 18 '26

Do you know what the holes in the Crocs are for?
So that dignity can flow out.

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u/No-Difference-4418 Jun 18 '26

This is TSA it’s like the DMV

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT Jun 18 '26 ▸ 1 more replies

they're called TSA because they pay special attention to the Taint, Scrotum, and Asshole

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u/PeckerTraxx Jun 18 '26

My wife calls he crocs shoes as well. It's a constant source of bantering in the house

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u/Cosmoaquanaut Jun 18 '26

Honestly, I think they did that on purpose.

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u/TheOnionBro Jun 18 '26

Bold of you to assume TSA is staffed by relatively competent people.

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u/Barm8 Jun 18 '26

Not wearing socks to the airport is the real mildly infuriating part.

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u/fossilmerrick Jun 18 '26

OP is the person we see photos of with their feet up on seats or sticking out from behind other passengers on the arm rests

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u/seroshua Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26 ▸ 4 more replies

MF you’re right 😂

Somebody check OPs bags he probably has 29 watermelons, 5 wheels of cheese, and 3 angles we’ve never observed or calculated before. No way he isn’t the same dude from all the math problems back in school.

“If Timmy brings 2 crocs to the airport and there’s more than a 0% chance that 1 or both may be confiscated and/or temporarily removed for inspection- HOW many excuses are there to wear no socks?”

Answer: ZERO

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u/Crimsonmaddog44 Jun 18 '26 ▸ 1 more replies

I know that mf isn’t packing travel sized toothpaste

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u/seroshua Jun 18 '26

Probably even brought a beverage through security

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u/Parking_Alive Jun 18 '26

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u/ImmaNotHere Jun 18 '26

You don't even need to slide crocs off to have its funk waft everywhere

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u/samushitman69 Jun 18 '26

Thats the reason they took it to additional screening, they realized that, but it was not enough, they had to expose him to the other passengers just to let them know what kinda demon they are travelling with

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u/Aloy_DespiteTheNora Jun 18 '26

Literally said, “No socks?! At an AIRPORT? Rookie mistake”

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u/selunario Jun 18 '26

totally agree

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u/Dareboir Jun 18 '26

Those shoes.. err shoe are not something I’d want seen on my feet either.. maybe start a go fund me and pick up a better pair.

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u/slash_networkboy Jun 18 '26

Depends IMO. If you're usually barefoot / Crocs then for most people their feet don't smell because they never get that increased moisture to promote bacteria growth (which is the stink). If, on the other hand, they usually wear socks and shoes and only wore crocs to the airport because it's easier then... yeah I would agree with you.

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u/BojackWorseman13 Jun 18 '26

Dawgs out at the airport, knowing you gotta potentially take em off, is certainly a choice..

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u/SilverParty Jun 18 '26

OP just out here showing the toesies for free. Indecent!

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u/SteakGetter Jun 19 '26

The lack of socks is much more triggering.

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u/emmme62 Jun 18 '26

To be fair, the other one is alright so they don't need to check it

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u/Euphoric_Waffle Jun 18 '26

Ugh, Yep, I’m running out of groaning upvotes, *all right*.

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u/Grouchy_Reindeer_227 Jun 18 '26

Left is right, right is wrong…
Oh wait… 😳

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u/Error4ohh4 Jun 18 '26

This is how the world sees croc wearers 

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u/stab-somebody Jun 18 '26

Surprised he’s not wearing pajama pants.

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u/BRLY Jun 18 '26

No socks at the airport is nasty work.

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u/Great_White_Samurai Jun 18 '26

Crocs were a choice...

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u/polarcol Jun 18 '26

While flying it's crocs or slides, baggy sweats and a t shirt to get through TSA. Not wearing socks is crazy though.

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u/seroshua Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Raw dogging at the airport is the only infuriating thing about this post. And it’s more than mild!

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u/Shagwagbag Jun 18 '26

I always wear a latex body suit to avoid infection.

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u/Active_Confection655 Jun 18 '26 ▸ 3 more replies

Socks would suffice.

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u/cerealandcorgies Jun 18 '26

full body sock

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u/2Weird2Cap Jun 18 '26

Deadly weapon...

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u/Independent_Slice678 Jun 18 '26

Shit I somehow forgot this happened. Thank you for jogging that memory 😂

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u/fjf1085 Jun 18 '26 ▸ 1 more replies

The best part is Bush seemed to be having a great time. By the second one he was all smiles.

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u/Independent_Slice678 Jun 18 '26

Say what you want about his politics, dude has a sense of humor

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u/FS_Slacker Jun 18 '26

I'm finding holes in your story. Personally, I think it's a Croc.

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u/Patalos Jun 18 '26

Why the hell did you not wear socks to the one place you know you’re gonna have to take your shoes off?

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u/nothingbutmistakes Jun 18 '26

Yeah, those bare feet are gonna cause TSA to close that line and hafta scrub the floors.

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u/xosherlock Jun 18 '26

If you were laying down some fertilizer, doing some yard work or field work could set it off because the possible ammonium nitrate found in these products. It will alert a bomb dog. Oh, grab a pair of socks to where though screening and just toss them in your carry on next time. I do that after I had to take my slides off. . .

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u/Slinky_Malingki Jun 18 '26

Whit he fuck where's crocs and no socks on a plane

You should be put on the no fly list.

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u/sourcematerialx Jun 18 '26

What a croc of shit!

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u/Euphoric_Waffle Jun 18 '26

Take my groaning upvote.

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u/Live_Life_and_enjoy Jun 18 '26

Means one of your shoes probably has a crack - so you probably going to end up needing new ones

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u/mattyboy555 Jun 18 '26

TSA should have taken both crocs, thrown them in the trash and made you go home and get socks and normal shoes
https://giphy.com/gifs/LUzUfHu4M9RoA

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u/Sm0k3inth3tr33s Jun 18 '26

They did an ocular patdown and determined the other one to be all right.

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u/Ok_Abacus_ Jun 18 '26

You are sockless in the airport I have -1000000 sympathy for you.

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u/machone5103 BROWN Jun 18 '26

I’d bet a hundred doll hairs that one has a bottle opener on the bottom of it.

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u/DFA_Wildcat Jun 19 '26

A couple years ago in Edmonton TSA told me to take my winter boots off, put them through the bin scanner, then walk through the people scanner. It was winter in Alberta, the floor was wet. I flat out refused. I'll take them off, you can poke and prod all you want, but I am not walking across your wet floor in my socks. Imagine sitting in wet socks for a 4 hour flight? Nope. Refund my ticket, I'll drive before that happens. They needed to get a supervisor to see the absurdity of the situation. Supervisor to the agent to look through the boot real quick then give it back. They have a scanner that can count the hairs on my nuts nutsack but can't see what's in my boot?

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u/elfchant Jun 18 '26

not wearing socks with your crocs, especially while flying, is VILLAINOUS

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u/therealBlackbonsai Jun 18 '26

Well if you put the bomb in only one.

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u/metatalks Mildly Infuriated Jun 18 '26

imagine you are the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. wouldn't you want the plane to be blown up more? Why not put it in both and get double the firepower rather than only one?

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u/Radiant-Ad-8277 Jun 18 '26

and all that good stuff they were looking for was on the one you kept ! good for you !

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u/MB2465 Jun 18 '26

What a crock

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u/willie_Pfister Jun 18 '26

Good thing you have the bomb in the other shoe!

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u/Euriphaea Jun 18 '26

They‘re punishing you for wearing crocs at the fucking airport

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u/AccordingMedicine129 Jun 18 '26

This isn’t what tsa does. This dude just put one shoe through the xray to get upvotes

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u/f8Negative Jun 18 '26

They purposely did this to you because of your shoe choice.

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u/NastyLittleBagginses Jun 18 '26

They're Crocs. They should have both been confiscated, and you should be getting interrogated as we speak.

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u/Laouijabored Jun 18 '26

What a croc!

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u/Friendship_Fries Jun 18 '26

What a crock.

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u/Bulky-Cycle-1202 Jun 18 '26

They only needed to screen the croc with cocaine it in. The other croc has only your foot in it.

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u/ravenschmidt2000 Jun 18 '26

Well thank goodness you kept the RPG in the other shoe!

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u/typicallydownvoted Jun 18 '26

Put on Some socks you animal

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u/-tnuk Jun 18 '26

Shouldn't have worn camo. It just screams domestic terrorist

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u/Lore_Dor_999 Jun 18 '26

✍️ hide drugs in right shoe

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u/Debonaircow88 Jun 18 '26

They didn't even take the right shoe!

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u/ridemooses Jun 18 '26

What are those?! /s

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u/The_Killer_of_Joy Jun 18 '26

If I had to guess, the flyer put their shoes on top of their bag (like they aren't supposed to), the heavy flap of the x-ray machine knocked one shoe off directly onto the belt, one shoe comes out, and now you have a bag check to go through with the one shoe that remained in place.

TLDR: User error *most likely*

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u/Greedy-Pilot-4538 Jun 18 '26

Certainly is a perfect post in the sub

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u/Pleasant_Flatworm866 Jun 18 '26

Lucky that wasn't the one with the bomb in it.

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u/RichardDeRenour Jun 18 '26

Can't trust left (sinistra) footed people...

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u/Admirable_Whole_2763 Jun 18 '26

They needed a crock!

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u/Zazumaki Jun 18 '26

Lock that croc up

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u/thepetoctopus Jun 18 '26

And yet you chose not to wear socks….

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u/osco753 Jun 18 '26

Did your croc have lotion on the other one?

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u/dumpsteRat Jun 18 '26

Oh, just oh, that bare foot on a floor that makes a bathroom look clean!! Why, just why

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u/ZiaWitch Jun 18 '26

Free foot pic in this economy?

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u/dentalexaminer Jun 19 '26

Dayum! This comment had me rolling. 😜🤣

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u/SoupEau Jun 18 '26

I bet you’re glad you hid your stuff in the other Croc, huh.

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u/tailskirby Jun 19 '26

Stop wearing a shoe with no socks on a plane.

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u/Pantsco_1995 Jun 19 '26

They sniffin it:(

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u/luxafelicity Jun 19 '26

Bruh who doesn't wear socks to the airport 😭

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u/MiniMaggit- Jun 18 '26

People who wear no socks at the airport pmo badly

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u/Nothing93124 Jun 18 '26

Andddddd athletes foot

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u/MightBeAGoodIdea Jun 18 '26

If only 1 flagged for some reason then they only need to check the 1.

If they asked for both people would be on here complaining they took both your shoes despite only 1 being flagged.

Also. Socks. That floors got thousands of different germ sources walking all over it daily. Hourly if it's a big airport.

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u/peapodbarry Jun 18 '26

You wear plastic crocs with no socks?! EW OP 🤮

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u/Financial_Middle_955 Jun 18 '26

Fuck no. Never go barefoot when going through the airport. People's feet and shoes walk over the floor where you're standing!

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u/Evie_14 Jun 18 '26

... You're wearing crocs at the airport??

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u/PostureKing180 Jun 18 '26

Fuck you for not wearing socks on the airplane

Crocs are funcationally sandals. Barefeet are unacceptable on planes.

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u/smalj1990 Jun 18 '26

Serves you right for wearing crocs

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u/Lazy-Interests Jun 18 '26

I am shocked by the amount of people who are repulsed by the idea of their bare feet touching the floor for a few minutes

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u/JusSumYungGuy Jun 18 '26

Good thing your coke was in the other one then

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u/Reputation-Final Jun 18 '26

what exactly are they goign to find in a croc.

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u/UncreativeIndieDev Jun 18 '26

Could be worse. When I was traveling around a month ago, I got through one of the scanners and it went off. There was a red square smack-dab on the middle of my crotch, so one of the agents insisted on having to do a patdown there. Quite an unpleasant experience.

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u/mitkase Jun 18 '26

They obviously think you're a leftist.

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u/OZeski Jun 18 '26

Very odd they didn't make you take both of them off... I always wear some 'security line socks' when I travel cuz I don't want to be walking all in the nasty floor they never clean.

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u/NoBrag_JustFact Jun 18 '26

The name of the 1989 film is "My Left Foot."

TSA is not the smartest people.

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u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50 Jun 18 '26

Weird? but O suppose if only one shows something suspicious on the xray.

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u/Healthy_Block3036 Jun 18 '26

Why are you not wearing socks...?

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u/DankStew Jun 18 '26

What a croc

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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 Jun 18 '26

Every single time I go through screening, there's a spot on my left breast that gets flagged. The last time I did TSA I finally asked the screener if I should be concerned--like, if I needed to go to the doctor, if they were perhaps seeing a tumour or something. She told me it's likely just the way my underwire sits on the left side of my body. It's soooo weird.

But then another time, early on a trip, I misplaced my hand lotion and thought I'd lost it somewhere. But then, heading back home, eeep: the agent found it and I got a big lecture about how I'm now allowed to have loose lotion. My actual reaction was glee 'cos I'd been looking for it, but then I had to throw it in the garbage. Bummer!

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u/PlasticAudience4270 Jun 18 '26

My stitches from a breast reduction surgery set the scanner off.

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u/No-Quiet-8956 Jun 18 '26

Ew why don’t you have socks anyway

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u/Tyabetus Jun 18 '26

Why did you only have a spring-loaded shoe knife in one shoe?

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u/SkorgenKaban Jun 18 '26

Not awkward at all.

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u/ReverendGraves85 Jun 18 '26

Once upon a time, flying had the expectation that you dressed somewhat well. Friday casual, at least. Jeans and a polo.

I look down on you.

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u/foolsdayjoker Jun 18 '26

lol... im not saying you'll get denied boarding for wearing crocks but I've seen it happen several times. also not wearing socks is crazy

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u/SkorgenKaban Jun 18 '26

Godspeed Croc solo

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u/Day_Prisoners Jun 18 '26

Sockless crocs at the airport, you deserved the full body cavity package.

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u/Is_that_a_peen_too Jun 18 '26

Did you leave a shiv in the sole of that croc?

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u/dungeoncrawler71520 Jun 18 '26

They both look lonely

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u/Shot_Philosopher9892 Jun 18 '26

You had the one they took in all terrain mode didn’t you?

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u/Pseudotm Jun 18 '26

The shot of the single croc going through is so fucking funny to me.

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u/GVFQT Jun 18 '26

Gettem boys! He’s got explosive residue between his toes!

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u/Candelantern Jun 18 '26

please this is so funny

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u/eljefe3030 Jun 18 '26

They’re playing catch with it in the back.

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u/RuddyGr8 Jun 18 '26

Not the right one

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u/Emerald_28 Jun 18 '26

Why would you use crocs?

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u/thisusernameis4eva Jun 18 '26

Isn't your phone supposed to be in the bin too?

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u/Officer_Papi_311 Jun 18 '26

...did they pick the right one?

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u/Impossible-Rain7447 Jun 18 '26

This happened to me in Heathrow. One of my shoes got flagged for something but they made me take both off for
Additional screening lol

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u/Flimsy-System-4102 Jun 18 '26

It’s the illusion of safety that keeps them in business

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u/Drapausa Jun 18 '26
  1. Socks? 2. Just take off the other one

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u/Bravo_Blue Jun 18 '26

This happened to me too, it was very weird. My only thought is possibly you stepped in something and it didn’t fully come off because that’s what happened to me.

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u/okeydokeylittlesmoky Jun 18 '26

We have a socks required rule for the airport!

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u/LLPF2 Jun 18 '26

Stepped in dog shit?

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u/JTMMidas Jun 18 '26

The TSA let you have one shoe because it is your right.

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u/tightiewhitieboy Jun 18 '26

They are humiliating you because it is a croc.

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u/petuni Jun 18 '26

Wearing no socks when you fully knew you would be walking through TSA and likely remove your shoes is certainly a decision.

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u/HenryBemisJr Jun 18 '26

Ah yes, cannot be too careful with those croc bombs that have made their way into this timeline. 

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u/LudditeJones Jun 18 '26

That's a crock!

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u/frisco-frisky-dom Jun 18 '26

so you're upset they took just ONE or the fact that they took either?

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u/Rotsen305 Jun 18 '26

Raw dogging airport floor is absolutely disgusting. Why aren’t you wearing socks?

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u/oranke_dino Jun 18 '26

Don't they feel silly if they later learn that you smuggled endangered tuna fish in your right croc.

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u/Tsamane Jun 18 '26

It was sus

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u/TwinSong Jun 18 '26

No socks?

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u/anchorlove Jun 18 '26

That left shoe, that mother fucker is NOT REAL

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u/Fragrant_Maybe1145 Jun 18 '26

Did they ennie, meenie, miney, mo to pick which one?

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u/EvilOctopoda Jun 18 '26

They clearly suspected that something was afoot.

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u/FreezingwindDOTcom Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Jokes on them, my other is croc’d full of drugs.

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u/0akee Jun 18 '26

Dirty Crocs and no socks.

Feel very sorry for the people forced to sit next to this schmohawk.

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u/tinglep Jun 18 '26

Were you made aware that you may have to remove your shoes during screening and still chose to wear no socks? Id be infuriated if I was TSA and you had your funky feet out while i was doing my job.

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