Interestingly enough, oklAAhoma, I had my first serious run-in with the TSA at your home airport. After my purse had gone through security an agent began to remove articles from it during a hand inspection. He removed my ID and many credit cards and laid them on the table. When he saw my cash stash, he insisted that he had to rerun my purse, leaving me to watch my ID and credit cards which were lying on the table.

He took a good long time re-running my purse, which left us only enough time to run to catch our plane. When I was on the plane, I discovered that he had stolen a $50.00 bill from my purse. He was caught on tape and dealt with--not the sharpest knife in the drawer. I was reimbursed by $50.00.

I was at that time advised by the a TSA official from D.C. never to let my purse out of my sight, which instruction I followed, which led to my next ridiculous TSA incident--where I was denied boarding for refusing to allow them to take my purse out of my sight. Odd lot they are.