Originally Posted by GradGirl
At SFO the screeners do indeed count the number of bags you're carrying. Someone else posted here that after taking her laptop out of her bag for screening, the screener said it counted as an extra item and so she had to put it back in the bag. Then she had to take it out again when she got to the belt!
Be careful to differentiate between those in the TSA uniform and those in the uniform (sometimes) of the failed airport security contractors like ITS or Globe.
At SFO the idiot who harassed you was a "maze dragon" who was not employed by the TSA. He or she is apparently so dense that the TSA would not hire him/her.
(Of course the "TSA" at SFO is infact something called "Team SFO" and is apparently a private contractor itself, allowed to prance about in a federal uniform, but they are not the same company as that of the "Maze Dragons")