Originally Posted by
Bart
Passengers who come through the WTMD with their boarding passes clenched in their mouths. Then they hand it to me. While that's disgusting enough, they then place it back in their mouths after I hand it back to them!
I'm one of these folks, but out of neccessity only. And I don't chew on the card, just bit a tiny bit near the top center, and then make sure I hand it to the screener in a way to avoid giving them the 'bitten' section.
Why do I do this? Because at the checkpoint, I am usually trying to remove
1) my shoes
2) my laptop
3) my plastic baggie
4) cell phone
all at the same time, and meanwhile the TSA rep is asking me for my boarding pass (that just got checked 5 feet back). I try to do all of this as quickly as possible, so as not to slow up fellow travelers. Last week, one of the TSA folks at FAY asked me for my b/pass while I was clearing in the middle of the above process, and when I didn't give it to her immediately (I was rooting through my bag pulling out my liquid bag), she asked me if my b/pass was in my bag. Have some patience, I've only got two arms!