Originally Posted by
gobluetwo
Did you point out the sign to the TSA employee and tell him that your mother was born before the date indicated? If so and he still did not acquiesce, I would have stopped everything and called for a supervisor. This TSA employee was clearly out of bounds and needed to be dealt with.
The checkpoint is so small that the supervisor could readily see everything, and the TSO so loud that the supervisor had to hear. The fact that the supervisor did not intervene with the first gentleman meant the supervisor either approved, or did not care.
I agree that push-back is necessary; I want to do so in a manner avoids tilting at windmills.