Originally Posted by AngryMiller

Usually at MSP the checkpoint is noisy with TSOs chatting with each other and the passengers. Not so today. Very quiet. Most of the time both of my bags get torn apart for additional searches. Today, just a quick run through the x-ray machine and off I go. No smiles on any of the TSOs.

Just from past experience, they behaved as though they had all been given a 'serious as a heart attack' speech from management.

Might be wrong, but that was the impression.