Originally Posted by
Djlawman
These people reached that point LONG LONG ago. Maybe, since you were departing STL and THEN RETURNING, he realized that you would need the baggie a few days from now, and was actually trying to HELP YOU OUT. Is that so difficult to comprehend? I guess so, for some of you folks.
Perhaps it got lost in the 3 pages of posts, but a few posts above, as the original OP I gave the TSA guy his props -- ^ ^ -- for being helpful in this situation.