What to answer on "why do you opt out"?
#3
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: COU
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Say whatever you feel like. I don't want to. Because you give me the option. It's Tuesday and I didn't get my USA Today in the hotel. Just respond, "I opt out" and leave it at that.
If they start feeding you crap, interrupt and tell them you didn't ask a question, so they don't need to answer it. Less polite? Put your finger up to your mouth and shush them and say you didn't ask a question, you answered it. Less polite? When they start talking, quick snarky smile and say, "Oh, you're still talking. How cute."
If they start feeding you crap, interrupt and tell them you didn't ask a question, so they don't need to answer it. Less polite? Put your finger up to your mouth and shush them and say you didn't ask a question, you answered it. Less polite? When they start talking, quick snarky smile and say, "Oh, you're still talking. How cute."
#5
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: MCO/FRA
Programs: None anymore
Posts: 799
Am I required to answer that question?
Because I can.
The sun came up in the east today.
I have melanoma.
I am claustrophobic.
I have medical reasons that my Dr and myself fell it is best not to expose myself to additional radiation.
Because I can.
The sun came up in the east today.
I have melanoma.
I am claustrophobic.
I have medical reasons that my Dr and myself fell it is best not to expose myself to additional radiation.
#6
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 966
While I support any and all of the answers given thus far, note that if you choose the snarky route, you'd probably best have plenty of time available for the "non-retaliatory" screening which will almost inevitably result.
They can assault you with no consequences whatsoever, but you'd better not talk back to them!
They can assault you with no consequences whatsoever, but you'd better not talk back to them!
#7
Join Date: Oct 2011
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Posts: 889
"Because it is my right to do so."
End of story. It's really funny when the TSO immediately begins to feed me the, "There's no radiation, this is a different type of machine," story as if it'll change my mind. It raises two questions in my mind: one, did you listen to a single word I said? Two, if BKSX is as perfectly safe as John Pisstool would have you believe, why do screeners at MMW airports go so far out of their way to explain that MMWs have no radiation, they're perfectly safe, and "the only machines that you need to worry about radiation with are the ones that look like two blue boxes."
Yeah, that's an exact quote from a TSO. Apparently BKSX is perfectly safe if you're at a BKSX airport, but if you're at a MMW airport, you need not have any health concerns at all, because those aren't the "radiation machines".
End of story. It's really funny when the TSO immediately begins to feed me the, "There's no radiation, this is a different type of machine," story as if it'll change my mind. It raises two questions in my mind: one, did you listen to a single word I said? Two, if BKSX is as perfectly safe as John Pisstool would have you believe, why do screeners at MMW airports go so far out of their way to explain that MMWs have no radiation, they're perfectly safe, and "the only machines that you need to worry about radiation with are the ones that look like two blue boxes."
Yeah, that's an exact quote from a TSO. Apparently BKSX is perfectly safe if you're at a BKSX airport, but if you're at a MMW airport, you need not have any health concerns at all, because those aren't the "radiation machines".
#10
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At a pre-check airport if you're not LLL: "Well, since you apparently think I'm not trustworthy, let's prove that I really am clean".
#12
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Portland, OR
Programs: DL MM Gold
Posts: 1,676
Then an effective response might be to articulate your intent to cease answering none-of-their-business questions.
"Because it is my right to do so. End of discussion."
Probably not best to include the truth as it applies to me:
"Because it is my right to do so. And it annoys you. End of discussion."
"Because it is my right to do so. End of discussion."
Probably not best to include the truth as it applies to me:
"Because it is my right to do so. And it annoys you. End of discussion."
#14
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