Last time I went through ORD, I handed the TSA my NEXUS card since I was visiting YUL anyway.

As many others posted already, this gave a tremendous fuss where the uninformed TSO had no clue what it was, "don't you have a drivers license like everybody else" (yes I do, but I refused to back down because it's an acceptable ID and I'm not digging out my backpack because of your ineptness) and caused a long back log behind me with frustrated grunts and groans. Yeah, I know I was causing a backlog, but it's not my fault this guy can't handle his job.

He calls over his supervisor who then checks my NEXUS and says it's acceptable ID and waves me through. Then the TSO burst into a flame and yelled at his supervisor: "if it's acceptable why isn't it in this book!? You made me memorize all this yet you have more ID that I don't know about!?" and he slams the ID checkbook onto the table.

The book was: ID Checking Guide: US & Canada Edition [whatever year it was], which is the same book that many bartenders use to check IDs.

So wait; is this guy inadvertently telling me that the our supposed last line of defense against airborne terrorism is relying on an ID checking guide that bartenders use?

I'm now willing to bet that if Kim Jong Nam tried to visit Disneyland here in the States using his fake Dominican Passport, he'd been let through!

No wonder these guys don't know what tribal IDs and NEXUS cards!