Originally Posted by
eigenvector
I think one part of this is to address people like myself, who normally opt out of the body scanner whenever possible and ask for the pat-down, which TSA views as an inefficiency. So they intend to make the pat-down so onerous that we will no longer object to it.
This. Before I got Precheck, I purposefully opted out of the cancer machines both for health/safety reasons, but also if they're going to fleece me for $5.60 a segment, they're going to damn well earn it, so I'm going to take up as many labor hours as possible. Plus I'm single, so getting felt up by a TSA high school drop out was pretty much the only action I was getting
