The “agents” always swear the rules are the same everywhere even though I was just in the other airport a few hours ago and no they aren’t!
“This is how it’s always done, sir… on the second Tuesdays of months with an even number of days and for the full duration of Toyotathon. Now don’t make me repeat myself: laptop under the bag and over the shoes or we cavity search you.”
Oh gosh, that’s my bad. I forgot we were in Toyotathon; I thought Happy Honda Days had started already!
Yes, they are. The rule is: No matter what you do, you’ll be called a dumb bitch.
This rule is universal and the whole point of the TSA.
They seem to relax the rules when it’s really busy… Like wait… Isn’t that when an attack would be the most dangerous meaning security would be even more important rather than less?
Goes to show how pointless most of it is.
If the rules are the same everywhere, they would do what every other competent place that has procedures that need to be followed does, and post them at the front. The fact that a TSA bitch has to stand there and tell you what to do means they’ve already failed.
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Last time I flew I started taking my electronics out of my carry-on (which was filled with a ridiculous amount of electronics) and a TSA agent told me to stop. I showed her inside the bag and said “you’re not gonna be able to see everything unless I take it out” and she just rolled her eyes and repeated herself. Then they had to take my bag and individually swipe everything for bomb residue because they weren’t able to see everything with the scanner…
Well, I hope you’ve learned your lesson
The lesson that the TSA will just say things and ignore reason?
The lesson is that you know it’s a sham, the TSA knows it’s a sham, but you’re intent in following through
You sound like you didn’t learn the lesson. Tut.
If the lesson is supposed to be that I should put the electronics in my checked bag, then no. I’d rather keep them in the bag I have with me.
Your inability to read sarcasm would make me search your bags, too.
Cool I see you’re doing your part to make sure our society mistrusts and discriminates against autistic people whenever possible
I don’t understand why they don’t have a sign at the entrance to security to tell you what to expect. Or, when it changes by which line you go to, why they don’t have a sign indicating the differences between lines.
Instead, they wait for someone to make a mistake, then yell out their mistake like “ALL ELECTRONICS MUST COME OUT OF YOUR BAG” at the same time as someone the next line over is yelling “ELECTRONICS DO NOT NEED TO COME OUT OF YIUR BAGS”.
TSA is infuriatingky inconsistent and incomprehensible, even for someone who travels frequently.
TSA is just a pork barrel jobs program. Nothing more.
Sometimes they do have signs, but then they don’t do what the sign says.
“Haha look at this asshole taking off his shoes, doesn’t he know we don’t have to do that anymore?”
the man says while taking off his belt to prepare for the newly introduced rectal scan
I actually got an sarcastic “Is this your first time flying?” The last trip I went on because I didn’t take some protein bars out of my pockets.
Typical rookie mistake. What if you hyper-proteinate while inflight and then became too strong to control, like a protein hulk?
Why did it matter? Did it trigger as metal or something?
Protein bars need to go through the allocated scanner.
You can’t bring outside food or drink through, unless it’s for a baby
I started asking each time, have saved a lot of hassle that way
One time I asked while putting stuff in the buckets, then when it got to the scanner they told me the opposite.
One of my flying tricks is to twist tie all of my cords into one big loop so that you know you have all of your cords at once and it makes them easy to pull out and put back in as needed
