Originally Posted by
MaxBuck
My experience is that, if I assume the guy I'm dealing with is pretty much like me (a guy who wants to be a nice guy and get through the day with minimal hassles), and treat the guy well and respectfully, things go well. If I assume the guy to have a priority in scamming me, hassling me, demonstrating his "superiority" or otherwise being a d*ck, then things go south.
I've had excellent dealings with TSA, having flown on numerous occasions. Think about that for a minute, then do as you please.
Yeah, a lot of us fly a
lot. I've had the Übermenschen lane for over three years now, so I don't have a lot of contact. But I've had 2 occasions where the clerks didn't know what a NEXUS card is and were too lazy to look it up. I had four clerks, including a supervisor trying to figure out what my NEXUS card was and telling me it wasn't a valid ID. The last time I went through the regular lane was at JFK T1 (an international terminal) and the clerk kept telling me she had to see my passport and I kept asking her why. Lots and lots of TSA clerks are too lazy to learn and do their jobs, and my encounters are trivial by comparison to what's happened to many many people.