I am an infrequent flyer,3 or 4x a year. Always out of ROC. ROC,as you may know was one of the flew US airports not to get TSA after 9-11. We still had private sceeners. Well,they did away with them last year,and now we have THE most useless power-tripping TSA'rs out there.
I flew out in May,this was my first experience with 'our' new TSA. It started with the *miserable* person checking ID's. Then , after putting my carryons on the belt,i went through the metal detector-did not set it off. I was then directed to the nude-o-scope,with my hands in the air like I was surrendering for doing something illegal. Then the TSO wanted to see my paper $.He was going throught it,looking for god knows what. Then I had to take my wallet out of my back pocket and have it put through the belt. Then I was 'free to go' .
This past week I had the indignity of going through this again. Another gruff TSO chcking id's. No hello for my hello. Put my bag ,no laptop, on the belt,off with the shoes. Go through the metal detector,no setting it off. This is where the fun starts. I am waiting for my bag to come out,the belt is stopped. This cant be good . One TSO calls another to look at something on the radar. The bag comes out ,TSO grabs it ,and announces,'whos is this'? Like I just got caught with my hand in the cookie jar. I say its mine. 'We need to open it' Fine. He produces my little can of Axe deodorant. Apparnetly this is not allowed and it 'must be surrendered' . Ok ,fine. The bag has to be put through again. The bag goes in ,belt stops,again,TSO 1 calls TSO 2. Here we go again. The TSO dumps everything out of the bag. Sees my digital scanner. This peaks his interest. 'Why do you have this with you'. I say I like to listen to ATC during a layover. I get this look like I'm on drugs.
I was half expecting the TSO to tell me they were confiscating that,too. That's when I would have said screw it and gone home ,there is no way I'm surrendering a $600 digital scanner. So,I get to keep it,has to be swabbed. The bag goes back for a third scan (empty now).The TSO now says that I can 'put everything back in in it' . Gee thanks.

Then to really make me laugh,the gate agent announces that," TSA will be swabbing everyones coffee cups that were bought after security" . To which just about everyone laughed out loud. What a joke these people are. I especially thought the 400+ lb. 'agent' squeezed into his outfit looked especially professional.
I dont know what TSA's problem is here in ROC. On all my return flights this year from MIA,BWI and ATL I have had ZERO issues with TSA. But for some reason they are out of their minds here.
I sent off an email to TSA abouth this ,but got the usual BS form email back.