No kidding?

What I have found the TSA robots respond most strongly to is any indication that you have enough intelligence to know what a farce their behavior is. God forbid they should face a real terrorist; they're more involved in telling actual travelers to lick their behinds.

My wife was almost denied boarding in Seattle for having a "bad attitude" (she didn't say anything particularly cutting, just didn't want to go along with the super-cheerful isn't-this-all-peachy attitude of the TSA agent -- she did have a "bad attitude", I would say -- last time I checked, that was not against the law).

Another time we were chased to the gate by a TSA employee who was desperate to get us to say something he could represent as "threatening", as we had informed him that the TSA website had a different set of rules about shoes than he was spouting. Dumb me, I hadn't printed it (not sure that would have helped, since I cannot swear that he could read). We weren't playing, and didn't give him the "threatening" response he was seeking.

Mostly I'm just quiet and contrite. But I really don't like to lie and pretend it's all for my own good, or that I like it. When they challenge me directly to lie and say how great the TSA molestation is, I just WON'T do it. And then these tiny little petty-bureaucratic wanna-be napoleons get mad and try to make a case. So far, they have failed.

Any wonder US airlines are losing billions?

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