Leaving Paris shoe less

It was Saturday 13h00, I was back at the airport to catch my flight to DR Congo re-scheduled at 15h15. The previous night bad experience with Air France was still strong in my mind. Just when I thought that it could not get any worse than that I was proven wrong. As I was preparing to pass through the security check at the designated gate for my flight, I place all my belonging on the convey belt to go through the X-rays machine. I place on the machine my jacket, belt, watch, laptop computer, my hand luggage and finally my shoes. All my belongings have already cleared the X-rays machine when I cleared through the metal detectors. But when I reach my stuffs and finished placing back the computer inside my hand luggage, I felt that something was missing. It was only when I put on my jacket that I realized that I was shoe less. I lost my shoes at the Paris Charles De Gaules (CDG) airport security check post. The shoes were no where to be found. I called on the agents that were present and they have found only one shoe beneath the X-rays machine but the other has just disappeared. The supervisor was called, and he asked their control centre to check the cameras footage to see if they can identify how the shoe disappeared and if anyone took it mistakenly.

After about half an hour the central replied that the footages from the overhead cameras at the post were inconclusive. Thirty minutes before my flight departure I still did not found my shoe. I asked if there is any store in the airport where I could buy new shoes but was told that there is no shoe store in the CDG airport complex facility. Wow!!! My flight was slightly delayed so that they could found me at least some running shoes or sneakers with the air carrier for the trip to Africa but Air France said "desole monsieur", that is "sorry, sir!". I saw a store selling some hats, I went in and found a pair of shoes but they were brand shoes selling at €648 (Euro). That was crazy. Unless you are really, really desperate behind hope why should anyone buy shoes at that price at the airport.

When it became really obvious that the plane would leave with or without me, I resigned to my fate and accepted to fly shoe less to Africa. I was not upset but puzzled to see that this has happened at the security check and they could not even see from the overhead camera footages what has really happened with one of my shoes I gave them to check in X-rays to gain access aboard an aircraft. The only thing I heard and got in abundance was "desole, desole" that's French for "sorry, sorry". I was marching and laughing of disbelieve as I walked into the aircraft shoe less, with socks only' the other shoe at my left hand. The security post supervisor gave me their reference and asked me to open a lawsuit against the Paris airport at my return back from Africa.

You should see the look on the faces of the immigration and people in the N'djili airport in DR Congo when they saw me walking literally with no shoes. Hah!hah!hah!, that was funny! Anyway, I'm alive and well in Africa even when arriving shoe less. Peace!
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