Flying and TSA

Loudmouthbass said:
PHL was slightly different. Shoes, jacket, and belt off. Removed 'liquids bag' from carry-on, had forgot on flight out but nothing was said. Unfold 'TSA Approved' laptop backpack. Remove laptop from backpack and place in container. Forgot to add Joisey to the list of languages I heard. Good to be back in NC, C-Store was first stop for a Sun-Drop on the way home and heard Joisey. The world is almost right again.
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This is one thing that drives me nuts. Different airports might have slightly different rules on what you need to remove, how it needs to go on the belt, if you have to use a tray or when you do not use one and if you can stack things in a tray.

Buts it’s not any of that that irritates me, it’s the fact that the TSA agent gets all pissy or the asshattery shows when you don’t do it exactly as they expect. Don’t be a dick, just be consistent. I already made sure I was as prepared as possible before getting here and then you changed up the rules muthafucka.
 
mbalbritton said:
This is one thing that drives me nuts. Different airports might have slightly different rules on what you need to remove, how it needs to go on the belt, if you have to use a tray or when you do not use one and if you can stack things in a tray.

Buts it’s not any of that that irritates me, it’s the fact that the TSA agent gets all pissy or the asshattery shows when you don’t do it exactly as they expect. Don’t be a dick, just be consistent. I already made sure I was as prepared as possible before getting here and then you changed up the rules muthafucka.
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YES! Especially as a pre-checker, when the pre-check lines are closed and I have to fly peasant, I do the "right" thing and take out my laptop and take out my liquids and take off my shoes, PER THEIR SIGNS, then they act all pissy cause I'm taking that stuff out. So I put it all in one bin, then they act all pissy because I didn't put it in separate bins. Listen, I ain't no peasant. I don't know if $50 is a good price for a gallon of milk or not. I have pre-check.
 
jeepinmatt said:
YES! Especially as a pre-checker, when the pre-check lines are closed and I have to fly peasant, I do the "right" thing and take out my laptop and take out my liquids and take off my shoes, PER THEIR SIGNS, then they act all pissy cause I'm taking that stuff out. So I put it all in one bin, then they act all pissy because I didn't put it in separate bins. Listen, I ain't no peasant. I don't know if $50 is a good price for a gallon of milk or not. I have pre-check.
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Exactly. Flying both ways for the holiday neither airport had signage anymore. Nothing about shoes, belts, liquids, or anything else. After 20 years of that crap being plastered everywhere it is hard to know what and what not to do now. I had to take off my shoes, my boy did not. We had to put everything in the bins, but nothing had to come out of the bags (liquids or otherwise.) Just don't get me started on how they get all pissy about how the bins are handled/stacked/etc. They have no "flow" yet get upset that things don't flow.
 
mbalbritton said:
Buts it’s not any of that that irritates me, it’s the fact that the TSA agent gets all pissy or the asshattery shows when you don’t do it exactly as they expect. Don’t be a dick, just be consistent. I already made sure I was as prepared as possible before getting here and then you changed up the rules muthafucka.
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Its the classic phenomenon of mis-attributing somebody's ignorance to all the people before them.
Mt. TSA guy gets tired of saying the same lines over and over and over again, to all those thousands of people, he sees you and thinks Damnit I told you this already you should know!
No MF, you told all those other people, not me. You've never seen my ass before and hopefully never will again. I'm just a random nameless face, let me get the F on with my life.
 
ive got tsa precheck + clear. Suffice to say its easier to get through tsa, than it is to check out at the grocery story at 1am.
I still aint rich enough to do first class on my several transpacific trips a year - so its only a very small joy before being sat next to a fat person, smelly person, or someone who doesnt know the "armrest rules" for the isle/middle/window seats for the next 15hrs. In over ten years of at least 4 such flights a year, ive only sat next to a hot chick twice.
 
ckruzer said:
ive got tsa precheck + clear. Suffice to say its easier to get through tsa, than it is to check out at the grocery story at 1am.
I still aint rich enough to do first class on my several transpacific trips a year - so its only a very small joy before being sat next to a fat person, smelly person, or someone who doesnt know the "armrest rules" for the isle/middle/window seats for the next 15hrs. In over ten years of at least 4 such flights a year, ive only sat next to a hot chick twice.
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Wait, there's "armrest rules"?
 
Loudmouthbass said:
Wait, there's "armrest rules"?
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Window seat gets window and window side armrest. Isle gets the extra space, so only gets the isle armrest. Middle seat has the worst situation, so they get both the inside armrests
 


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