Screened at gate by TSA
OK, I was standing second in the A line at a Southwest gate in Dallas. I needed to be in the front so I could get an exit row seat, given my need for legroom. As I gave the GA my BP, two TSA agents stopped me and said I had been selected for additional screening. As they are wanding me and looking through my bag, I told them they were ruining my chance for an exit row. I was pleasant.
The man wanding and patting me down found some object in my pocket and asked what they were. I had snuck two small mini-bar sized bottles of rum in my front pockets when I went through the WTMD at security (plastic lid, so no metal there). I figured for sure the guy at the gate would take them from me, but I showed them to him and he handed them back to me and sent me on my way. I had no baggie, and he had to assume I brought them from outside. You can't buy those inside the airport.
by the way, I still got the exit row!