do they really check for this at security?

[154241]

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I hate flying on airlines. 🙁 I was going through the TSA's website and found this:

"Gel shoe inserts - Gel shoe inserts are not permitted, but shoes constructed with gel heels are allowed and must be removed and screened."

This sucks! I have heels that were unbearably painful for the first interview, but was gellin' for the second and my feet felt great. But I won't be able to have them in my carry-on? (You can check them, but I'm not checking anything.) I won't be wearing these shoes on the flight, they'll be in my big carry-on. Has anyone actually had the shoes in their luggage checked?

 

[armybound]

I'd just keep them in there and act like you didn't know.

If you want to be a little more legit about it, you could always call the airline. Surely some woman somewhere has to be sympathetic to your need.

 

[154241]

Yeah, I'm definitely going to take them, and I guess they'll take out the inserts if they're that uptight about it. I just wonder if this has happened to anyone on SDN. I don't look like a terrorist... 😳

 

[Kiara08]

maybe put the inserts in your little baggie of liquids

 

[154241]

maybe put the inserts in your little baggie of liquids

good idea... thanks! Here's the site if anyone else is preparing for flights:

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/permitted-prohibited-items.shtm

 

[hp540]

stick it into your checked luggage

 

[foreverLaur]

i put my shoes with gel inserts into my bag and they never noticed through the security. i also had chapstik in my purse back when it was 'illegal' and they never noticed that either. i got buy with a big bottle of perfume once too. tehehe...

 

[MassTransport]

You can probably get away with having them in your bag. Airport security is alarmingly porous.

 

[ziggy793]

You can probably get away with having them in your bag. Airport security is alarmingly porous.

I agree. Don't worry about it. If anything, they will confiscate them. Buy some when you get there at a local drugstore. It's probably chump change at this point!! (up to my neck in CC bills!!)

 

[cyclingmo]

I agree. Don't worry about it. If anything, they will confiscate them. Buy some when you get there at a local drugstore. It's probably chump change at this point!! (up to my neck in CC bills!!)

If you're up to your neck in CC bills nothing is chump change!

 

[Bacchus]

stick it into your checked luggage

She's not checking anything.

 

[inaminute]

put em in with your 3 oz bottles of stuff in the quart size ziplock bag and have a doctor's note handy. Or start crying that your heels are sooo painful or summat. I bet no one would notice them anyway---they don't enforce the other rules.