Actually, I've had a few run ins with TSA in MSN, even though overall they're pretty chill. I was flying out one morning and my bag got pulled aside post-xray. The TSA screener glared at me and condescendingly asked "do you have anything in here I need to know about?" I said, "no, my bag should be good to go" as I show him my military ID. He says "really, are you sure about that?" as he starts rifling through my compartments. He proceeds to pull out one government issue butter knife that I forgot I had in my bag and waves it in my face (it's a daily use bag so I had a set of silverware from the mess hall in there for barracks use). He says "look at this deadly weapon you have in here, you want to explain this?" I said "it's a rounded end, dull government issue butter knife that's permissable under your own regulations. what's the issue?" He says, "look at this serrated edge, I can't let this through, it's a deadly weapon that you're trying to smuggle past my checkpoint." I replied, "really? have you ever taken combatives and if so, are you really going to tell me that this dull butterknife is an effective weapon? that's government property you're holding right there and it's on you if you're going to steal it" I was about to ask for the guys badge number to put him on report but I had to catch my flight so I just let him have the butter knife. Ironic that a federal employee is now, in a sense, liable for theft of Army property. I truly despise the TSA.

Oh, and while I'm at it, I also hate this pseudo-behavioral analysis BS they do at ID check. "Where are you going today?" I dunno lady, why don't you look at my f*ing boarding pass and tell me? Of course, the last time this happened was at IAH A where the TSA in question had just threatened the guy in front of me with security after he dared step two feet past her hold line. Great representatives of America, the TSA.