I'm sitting at MCO and trying to sort out my security experience. It's home to Casual, Family, and Expert security lines, at least in name. I figure I count as expert since I've pretty much lost count of the number of flights I've taken. I know enough to get my laptop out and whip my shoes off in a timely fashion (when possible, I just wear flip flops).

So we get help up at the entrance to the so-called expert line by a guy flying with a five year old saying a prolonged, lane blocking goodbye to wife/girlfriend/whatever. Finally he must have felt the glares and moved aside to let us through. This put us behind a kid who thought it was the height of cool to have ditched us in the line next to him so he could go through himself.

Then it's off to x-ray, where they guy in front of us had no concept of shoe removal despite seeing everybody else in line doing it. Of course, he had shoes that took forever to remove. Didn't matter as we had a plenty long wait with several peole in front who didn't believe that "have your laptop out" applied to them.

I watched people in the casual and family lines whisk right through. No wonder, since I think most of the strollers were over with us in Expert. Seems to be there should at least be some vague guiding by the TSA. Otherwise, why even have marked lines at all?