Came through TSA checkpoint at EWR, terminal B (Delta gates) this morning.

(Side question: why does this checkpoint have a PreCheck lane if it never seems to be open?)

While redressing after the "security screening," I was listening to a conversation between a TSO and a passenger whose bag had been "flagged" for additional screening. The TSO found a Texas Instruments calculator of some type, and commented about how he'd had one when he was in school.

He asked the pax if there were any games on the calculator; the pax did not know. The TSO then went on to talk about his school days -- how, when he was in math class and all the other students were hard at work studying, he was playing games on the calculator. He laughed loudly, thinking that had been a good joke on the other students, apparently.

And now, he's a TSO. Amazing. Wonder what became of the studious students?