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UK Traveler
As I was getting on a flight at DFW today, the gate agent stopped me and said I had 3 carry-ons as I had a laptop, a fanny pack and a neck pouch with my travel documents. I told her I had never been told that in the past. She said toss it or put it away, so I put in in the laptop case.
Totally nuts. Is security at DFW more careful because of the Christmas Day incident? Going there, I was allowed to put my Kindle in with other items. DFW madee the Kindle be in it's own tote as it went through the scanner. Weird.
If this was the gate agent as you were boarding, then this was not a TSA encounter and has nothing to do with security. It's the airline agent being over-zealous when enforcing the rules.
In my experience, strictness about number and size of carry-ons varies mostly with the individual agents. Trying to associate it by airport or by airline usually is inaccurate when you have a larger sample size of more trips.
DFW is my home airport, and I haven't noticed them being unusually zealous, for me or for other passengers.