As I'm getting ready to board, she comes over to the gate (about 10 feet from the checkpoint--we're talking a tiny airport) and says, "Your laptop fried my ETD machine!" I just chuckle, thinking she's joking around, and say, "I don't know; sounds like the machine was broken from the start." She then says, "What have you been handling?" and I respond, again, "I don't know," and go out to the plane singe the GA had then taken my BP.
My wife then tells me the TSO actually stopped HER to ask what I had been "handling" that could have set it off, and then goes on again about "whatever it was 'frying' the machine." Very odd that she stopped my wife to complain.
Fortunately they did not take any personal info from me. My wife also tells me it's good I didn't stop to lecture the TSO on how the ETD machine actually works, and why it could have been "broken."
But I do find it very strange that a TSO would act the way she did... and not fill out a report / take personal info. I'd have thought she was joking around if I hadn't watched her screening other pax and then heard about her stoping my wife. Apparently, she actually thinks my laptop "broke" the ETD.
