Originally Posted by
pacer142
It's this "screaming" I don't get. While the rules in the UK are just as nonsensical, and the procedure just as much of a hassle, screening staff have never been anything other than polite to me. This being the case, the whole experience is made a lot more tolerable.
If someone screams at the crowd lined up to be screened nobody listens. The screams register as background noise. If, as in the UK, someone politely and directly reminds you of the rules as you pass, everyone listens.