Yesterday flying home on DL from TPA to LGA, at gate E70 there were 2 TSO's, one female and one male standing near the entryway door to the jet bridge, I didn’t know what they were up to, so I just walked up close to the gate to check out the situation, I saw they had set up a ETD machine on a small table next to the boarding door to the jetway, so I assumed they were going to do some carry on luggage inspections. They were there at least 45 minutes before the flight boarded and all they did was stand around and do nothing but chat during this time

The TSO's waited until most of the first class passengers had boarded before they made their first move, they first stopped a young lady who was holding about a 20 ounce bottle of water in her hand, the female TSO asked her to put the bottle of water on the table and spread her arms and the female TSO did a fairly complete patdown of her body, she did not check the inside of her waist band of her slacks or pat her hair down and surprisingly did not check the contents of her water bottle.

After the female TSO completed her patdown, the male TSO rubbed the female TSOgloves with a ETD swatch and tested it in the machine, one the test was clear, they let the female passenger board and then he stopped a male passenger who was totally oblivious to what was going on and walked right in front of the male TSO as he was boarding and the male TSO then proceeded to do his rubdown of the male passenger

I was traveling with my wife and my cousin and her husband and I held them back from boarding until they grabbed the male passenger and then we entered the general boarding line when the GA announced zone 1 and zone 2 boarding. I was scolded by the GA that we should have been using the Sky Priority lane instead of the general boarding lane as our boarding passes were being scanned, but the TSO had set up their table next to the SP boarding lane and the first passengers they grabbed were entering through the SP lane so we boarded with the rest of the passengers instead.

Another total waste of taxpayers money.

Mr. Elliott