Originally Posted by
mahohmei
Someone I know recently flew round-trip from TLH to BDL, both ways within two weeks of his birthday.
He presented his passport (he doesn't trust TDCs with his home address) and BP to the TDC, and at both TLH and BDL, he was asked the same question:
"Did you have a happy birthday?"
Were both TDCs trying to be nice, or have TDCs been instructed to ask this question to see if people using fake IDs are going to stumble or give weird looks?
I'm just glad it wasn't me. I would have answered a semi-verbal "hrmph" or "None of your business."
I think your friend should have been out-raged that TSOs would dare make small talk! The nerve of some people.
It was just small talk. Same thing happened to me this last year when I went to the gym, scanned my ID, my info appears on the computer screen, and the counter person saw my DOB - and said "Happy Birthday". You know, some people simply do that.