Excellent question. That's an airport question rather than TSA one because TSA leases property from the city airport. My challenge still stands; however, because even if a kitchen passes a health inspection, the question is whether or not that table you're sitting at is really clean when all a bus boy did was collect the dirty dishes from the previous customer and wipe down the table. Would you still place your fork directly on the table?

Just to digress, we went to dinner with another couple not too long ago, and the wife of our guest asked me if she minded that she hung her purse off the back of my chair since hers didn't have a place to hang it from. I joked that I was secure enough in my manliness to allow a woman to hang her purse from the back of my chair. She said that had nothing to do with it: she believed in a superstition that if you place your purse on the floor, then your family will lose its fortune. And she was dead serious!