You don’t have to take off your shoes anymore, unless you want to. If you’ve realized that the pair you chose is terrible, you can still put them into a bin and slide them into the scanner, because it’s our job to stop bad decisions from making their way onto airplanes.
“We are confiscating these shoes,” we will announce loudly. “Not because their wearer has atrocious taste, but because they are dangerous.”
You can reclaim your shoes at the baggage carousel. Whether you should is between you and your God.
If you’re into crafts, be aware that knitting needles are fine now. Yes, that includes the long, thick ones that look like railroad spikes. We noticed that only “women of a certain age” really use those.
If an eighty-five-year-old woman wants to stab someone with a knitting needle, quite frankly, she’s earned it. Whoever gets it probably had it coming.