Posters #16 & 17 are right. Fortunately, if I can call it that, my adult daughter (and her baby) were with me on that incident. Daughter was able to keep a close eye on my bags as they pawed around in them. It made absolutely no sense whatsoever to keep testing my hands, but they did. They were bumbling around and chatting in the little room (2 female TSOs), while daughter and I were just sitting there very calmly. This is why I always get to the airport 2 hours before flying now. There's no telling what kind of nonsense the TSA will be up to. In that situation, as soon as I mentioned washing my hands in the airport, we were excused. The whole thing was ridiculous.