Originally Posted by
spotnik
Many passengers refuse to engage in smalltalk with us. Usually they are busy, or they hate TSA. In my experience, none have been terrorists. The most any of them have been trying to hide was a tube of Carmex. I told that passenger he shouldn't need to hide it.
You totally sidestepped my question, will refusing to engage smalltalk with a BDO, or anyone else in the line lead to a secondary? I get the feeling the government thinks 'normal citizen' means the silly chatty-cathy people and the rest of us have something to hide, so we warrent further searches.