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3catwoman3

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5. Horrendous, time consuming...

Reply to Melon (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 12:04 AM

Saturday

…and hygienically disgusting 🤮.

I’ll wear one pair of socks and have a second pair, in a ziplock bag, at the ready in my purse. If I have to take my shoes off, as soon as I’m thru security, I take off the now-contaminated socks, put them in the ziplock, and put on the clean ones. I don’t want to step back into my shoes with the socks that have just walked thru gawd-knows-what.

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