Originally Posted by
pinniped
I kind of see both sides of this. I see a lot of people in airports who don't seem to understand their specific purpose or direction. People who aren't thinking ahead and prepared to engage a process like a TSA checkpoint as efficiently as possible. It's not about people moving slowly due to disability or age: it's about people be unprepared and unfocused, and that's discourteous to everyone behind them in the queue.
I think we all agree that the current TSA process sucks. We agree that there are various other processes we have to go through at airports that aren't truly optimized for efficiency. But we can do our best to help each other out by staying on top of our own game...focusing on what we need to do, where we need to be, etc.
I accepted long ago that there will be people in the line ahead of me who may not be familiar with the security check process as me. I can silently seethe as they slowly put their stuff in the bin, get sent back because they forgot to take off their shoes or delay me because they didn't take off their jewellery before going through the metal detector. Or I can just smile and be patient.
I've also accepted there may be some frequent flyer behind me who might conclude I am not going fast enough to suit him because I am "unfocused and unprepared." I don't care how discourteous he thinks I am.
I can't make the people ahead of me go faster and I won't go faster just because someone behind me thinks I should. Neither group are worth stressing over. YMMV.