Practical Travel Safety Issues - Ugly TSA screener causes nasty passenger behavior...

Well, I don't get called an A**hole very often, but a fellow passenger called me that today at the SAT checkpoint - and the TSA screeners just laughed.

The passenger ahead of me (woman, 50-ish) had loaded her plastic bins when the screener pointed out that her computer had to be in a bin by itself. I already had my bins on the table and was placing my shoes into the first bin when she grabbed it away from me and said "let me have that". She then mouthed off to the TSA screener "this is new, other places don't make me do that". I looked at her and said, "would have been nice if you'd asked me for the bin". To which she responded "I did ask you, A**hole", and then she proceeded through the WTMD.

Nice. As was the laughter from the TSA screeners.... who then insisted on screening my briefcase twice.

No point in taking out your frustrations on fellow passengers, lady...

So how does this make TSA ugly? Maybe they were laughing at the lady being an idiot and not her response to you. It is all about perspective.

So how does this make TSA ugly?

Their stupid asnine rule about laptops in seperate bins which is not enforced at all stations makes the TSA ugly.:mad:

You must have been in a good mood...I would have just taken the bin back and dumped her laptop out on the table or the floor. My tolerance for stupid passenger tricks is already at '0' - something like that would have pushed me over the edge.

You must have been in a good mood...I would have just taken the bin back and dumped her laptop out on the table or the floor. My tolerance for stupid passenger tricks is already at '0' - something like that would have pushed me over the edge.

Yes. I would have been very tempting to do this.

I don't know how you resisted.

But rather than destroying her property, and thus causing you an unpleasant delay, you could have said "You obviously don't get to the airport very often, you putrid skank - a head as ugly as yours needs to be X-rayed separately too". If the TSA goons didn't pick her for A**hole, they probably would have good a good laugh out of your comment too.

Sometimes the c-word is the only descriptor that will do.

"Excuse me officer, this woman just addressed me in a threatening manner..." should have been all that would have been necessary to get her the full-body-cavity treatment, I would think... :D :D

Sometimes the c-word is the only descriptor that will do.

Chertoff?

So how does this make TSA ugly? Maybe they were laughing at the lady being an idiot and not her response to you. It is all about perspective.

First, had the TSA not been nasty and condescending to her about the laptop, perhaps she would have no reason to be so nasty to me. And there is no reason for the screeners to laugh, whether in response to her nor to her being an idiot. Be professional - a situation that may well (had I not been restraining myself) have escalated is no laughing matter.

Chertoff?

LOL!

You must have been in a good mood...I would have just taken the bin back and dumped her laptop out on the table or the floor. My tolerance for stupid passenger tricks is already at '0' - something like that would have pushed me over the edge.

I'm right there with you. If she's gonna call you an a**hole, at least give her a reason.

Well, I don't get called an A**hole very often, but a fellow passenger called me that today at the SAT checkpoint - and the TSA screeners just laughed.

The passenger ahead of me (woman, 50-ish) had loaded her plastic bins when the screener pointed out that her computer had to be in a bin by itself. I already had my bins on the table and was placing my shoes into the first bin when she grabbed it away from me and said "let me have that". .

I would have ripped it back out of her hands myself. People like that need to be pounded severely about the face and head until they wait their damn turn.
Kudos for you, sir, in not opening up a fresh can of whoop-... on her.

If the TSA were worth its collective weight in warm spit, they would have told HER to back off and act like a civilized person. Small wonder that a bunch of mouth breathers like that would just stand and laugh.

--PP

One responds to uncomfortable situations with politeness and consideration, or one doesn't. It's all simply a matter of breeding.

If I had to look at ugly TSA screeners, I'd be cranky too.

Yes I would have put that b....h in her place real fast. I too am so.... tired of clueless, idiotic paxs and have no problem letting them know how low down on the food chain they exist. Unfortunately, low fares often mean low class.

I think, however, that the TSA employees while probably having the ID of field mice were probably laughing at this imbecile of a person.

From what the poster said she probably is not getting "any" from her husband (who probably himself is a wimp).

From what the poster said she probably is not getting "any" from her husband (who probably himself is a wimp).

Damn it, I just got done cleaning out this keyboard form the last post that made me spit diet pepsi into it. ROFL!!!!

--PP

Chertoff?

Sometimes, you just go too far, man. *shakes head*

So how does this make TSA ugly? Maybe they were laughing at the lady being an idiot and not her response to you. It is all about perspective.

I tend to agree on this..The lady had a choice of what to say to you and she decided to use a poor word choice..
cheers
howie

First, had the TSA not been nasty and condescending to her about the laptop, perhaps she would have no reason to be so nasty to me. And there is no reason for the screeners to laugh, whether in response to her nor to her being an idiot. Be professional - a situation that may well (had I not been restraining myself) have escalated is no laughing matter.
You said in your original post that TSA just "pointed out" to her that her laptop needed to go in a seperate bin. Now you are saying that they were nasty to her about it. I think you are losing market share in this area.

Why... HI there, eye! Has Barney Fife loaned you his single bullet yet?

You said in your original post that TSA just "pointed out" to her that her laptop needed to go in a seperate bin. Now you are saying that they were nasty to her about it. I think you are losing market share in this area.

No.

He's pointing out that the TSA's nastiness in this situation had a short chain reaction effect, and their snickering at her remarks was kind of the icing on the cake as far as I can see. Kudos to HI for not descending to their collective level.:rolleyes:

"Excuse me officer, this woman just addressed me in a threatening manner..." should have been all that would have been necessary to get her the full-body-cavity treatment, I would think... :D :D

That would do it. You could add "TSA agents are not A%# holes. How dare you."

I looked at her and said, "would have been nice if you'd asked me for the bin". To which she responded "I did ask you, A**hole", and then she proceeded through the WTMD.


I would have responded... 'That's okay. I've been told worse... by better people'