Originally Posted by
diburning
Between all of United's elites and all of the people with the EMS seats, I often elect to skip the EMS lane as the regular one sometimes is shorter and moves faster!
Just this past Monday, I didn't get precheck (despite having GE??) and tried exactly what you said above since the regular line was quite a bit shorter than the EMS line.
I was instantly confronted by the most incredulous TSA one-striper who looked like the mean older brother from Weird Science, who literally yelled at me that I "cannot just go anywhere [I] want". It didn't set a great tone for the morning.