Originally Posted by
14940674
That is a discussion worth having, but the key point here is that the OP knew the TSA requirement that, when selected for AIT, you either use it or opt-out, yet she attempted to garner an on-the-spot exception. She cannot expect that strategy to succeed.
I understand your point, but she also mistakenly thought she was going through a scanner-free checkpoint. If she had realized there were scanners there, she would have planned differently. I think, when a person in this situation potentially has hundreds or thousands of dollars in airfare on the line, I can understand why she'd ask to be let through.