Just to show how dicey it almost got on Sunday, while I was waiting to ask the half-brain dead guy from Globe Security where the non-existent FC line was, the lead agent from NW stormed over to him and started yelling "where is your supervisor".

Turns out they let two pax through the checkpoint without checking IDs, and when the ID was checked at the gate, it didnt match the tickets.

She threatened to have the whole concourse shut down and everyone sent outside. I stifled the urge to warn her if she did, I would have her job for disrupting so many travellers on a holiday weekend for such nonsense, but things got settled down in the end. That would have been a HUGE mess with hundreds of people missing connections in EWR, IAH, MSP, MEM and DTW. I think I will try to switch my Sunday flights home to the 6p departure out of DCA...BWI is too much for my nerves.