Originally Posted by FlyingCowboy

I opted out today, as always, and gotnthe standard patdown. I never gave the explosives residue test any thought before but when I saw them conferring I knew there was a problem. Sure enough, I was invited back to the private room for a more thorough pat down.

As it turns out, the super secret pat down is no different than the regular pat down with the exception that they run the fronts of their hands several times across the crotch, side to side and then up and down. It's as if they are crotch obsessed.

Anyway, I handle both firearms and fertilizer on a regular basis and was told this could have triggered the super secret finely calibrated and regularly tested machine. Who knows. It never happened before.

I just thought y'all would feel safer knowing that TSA was diligent enough to take this lifelong frequent flyer into the back room for some additional crotch screening. I would continue but I am now attempting to evade the wandering TSA mall walkers,, errrr, I mean behavior cue experts.