I experience this every month in a non-English speaking country and it really speeds things up and, doesn't bother me. Take my laptop out? No, don't bother. When they do look, not always, and they do see something they don't recognize they ask, hey around this spot, what's in there? A camera (I guess) , I say. OK, great they say.

Metal detector - remove one metal item , usually the cell phone since it is close by (though it probably has less metal in it than other things) . Skip the watch, belt etc., Set off metal detector. Half-hearted wave of the wand. OK, go through. Because they can see the watch and belt and they can draw a sensible conclusion.

At my connection point they have a lot of dogs looking for weed and cocaine, a bigger priority. They have one dog trained to sniff money but mistakenly included coins in his training. When I was caught by Snoopy he found 36 Trinidadian cents (worth about zero). I asked the policeman since the limit for currency is US$10,000 and therefore 40,001 quarters would be the minimum for a law breaker do they find many guys with their pants looking like they have elephantiasis, and walking slow since they have 995 pounds of coins on them? They don't (find any) and he regretted the coin part of the dog's training.

I think the strength of security is that the miscreants just don't know how thorough it will be nor when, so it really doesn't have to be that thorough that often. That's why sampling works in other areas. I sure would not then say you guys are really bad at this security thing you know. They won't change anyway and I look like a troublemaker.