Originally Posted by FortyFive
Interestingly enough, the one time I have ever been to St. Louis (for the 2005 Sox-Cards interleague series), I had a horrible experience with the TSA staff at the St. Louis airport. This woman, who was checking ID's and allowing people into the security line, starting screaming at me because I had taken my purse out of my laptop bag to procure my ID, and was putting it back in (which takes all of 3 seconds).
If you are talking about the person at the beginning of the line that checks your ID against your boarding pass, then that person was most probably not a TSO. It was a contractor hired by the airlines, the airport or a consortium.