Originally Posted by
SFO777
Sorry, but in more than 150 domestic segments this year, I have never experienced anything remotely close to what you are talking about.
Then again, I suspect that one's attitude at security goes a long way to affecting the response and thus one's experience.
Do you carry a non-North American passport? Are you female? Do you have physical limitations? Do you wear a skirt to fly?
All of those things can have an impact on how one is treated, even when one is quiet and polite as I am at the checkpoint. I have also listed my 'non-remarkable' experiences here over the years in the interest of fairness, but the remarkable ones are what makes a difference.
The fact that you haven't had a negative TSA experience doesn't negate the fact that others have. I used to think like you, and that it was all the fault of the passenger, until I found myself being at the receiving end of the bad behaviour over and over and over again.