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Old Mar 19, 2011 | 6:04 pm
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PhlyingRPh
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The snapping of the gloves...

Very early in the year, I was selected for the Pervoscope at a number of airports. An observation I made was that after opting out, I would always be asked to wait (post-WTMD), and without exception, when the TSO in charge of gropes walked toward me with what seemed to be a sense of purpose, he would very visibly and loudly snap one glove on in a menacing way - hand up in the air, far in front, pumped up to make it look really big (like a 3D action figure), while the other hand would pull the glove down and then let it snap back loudly in an overly dramatic manner.

Now, this could be just a TSO multi-tasking and putting fresh gloves on as he is walking toward the opt- out, or he might want the opt-out to see that fresh gloves are being used. OTOH, it could be a deliberate and orchestrated act designed to either humor the opt-out or strike fear into him as a kind of passive-aggressive act of revenge for opting out.

Perhaps our TSO friends on this forum would like to comment on my observation. And also, perhaps, those of us who are not TSO's could refrain from personally attacking the individual TSO author of a response that one does not agree with.
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