Originally Posted by
Often1
Maybe the better question is why you continue to hold up the passengers behind you, knowing that the Officer is going to unfold the paper you have wasted your own time folding.
OP is one pax.
Hundreds of other first-time flyers with home-printed BPs likely transit the checkpoint every day. They receive no special training to fly and there are no signs or videos on huge monitors demanding that pax present their home-printed BPs in a particular manner.
If it's a huge problem, TSA could provide an assistant TDC to pre-vet each BP to make sure it complies with TSA standards. Any pax with a BP printed on a full sheet of paper and folded over could be sent back to the kiosks to get a re-printed version - or to the back of the line, to start over again after tearing off the offending and terribly distracting lower half of the page.
TDC sees home-printed BPs all day long, every day. Why does a highly-trained professional TDC keep wasting everyone's time unfolding and scrutinizing the irrelevant half of each home-printed BP? Slow learner?