This must be a pain for some TSOs (ordinary people not on power trips).

Kind of like being a shy kid forced to go door-to-door selling candy bars to raise money for your soccer team or standing at the entrance to a supermarket trying to sell cookies.

Having to walk up to strangers in an already tense situation, strangers that your organization has already decided are, by definition, 'guilty', and then make fake but perceptive small talk designed to entrap most likely innocent people, knowing that some of them are filled with disgust at what you are doing but know they can't be honest or open - what a way to make a living. :(

I was just going through the Pre- lane at BOS Term A and got the "where are you going?" treatment. I demurred and eventually told her it was "none of your business" and she immediately told me, "of course it's my business. It's part of Precheck. Are you unfamiliar with Precheck?"

Finally she was getting agitated ("You have to tell me a place, sir, I can't tell from here!") and I just made something up and said, "Seattle!" (I'm going to LAX)

That satisfied her and she gave me my ID back and told me to have a nice trip.

Jimminy Christmas!

Baloney Sandwich, BALONEY Sandwich and BALONEY SANDWICH :mad::mad::mad:

It is none of anyone's business other mine and my airline as to where I am flying and no it is not part of Precheck so Ms. TSO-you need to go back to school and study real hard as it is actually ACT I of the smash beltway hit, "Security Theatre"

I wonder what they will think if i tell them that i'm going to the united club?

Best answer ever!!!!!

My answer will be 'hopefully Gate x'.

I tried, "To get on a plane" and "On a business trip" and all it did was piss her off.

IAD tried the same thing with me a couple of weeks ago. Precheck was insisting that all passengers provide a destination. I said "work" and she let me go, but was none too pleased. The boarding pass read "LAX", which was my destination.

I think precheck asks about destination in case you have an international connection. Because everyone knows international travelers are too scary to use precheck. :rolleyes:

True. But even if you tell the truth some of them just keep up with the game.

Maybe next week I'll do the look-over-at-the-boarding-pass-to-read-it-off game.

I keep wanting to print out a photoshopped set with extra names:

John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

I. P. Freely

Lotzov Dyme

etc.

But so far have been too lazy.

Got this at MHT last week. It was done by a second guy at the ID station. Same guy became my groper and repeated to me every non descriptive one word answer I gave him. It was kind of weird - and the most thorough grope I ever received.

I've only been asked about my destination twice, but my response of " Uranus " seemed to successfully convey my opinion of their question. And it works on men, and women.

The woman this morning at BOS terminal A did not ask any questions other than, "Did you know your flight is out of Terminal C?" I told her I know i was going to the lounge and she said "You just want to use pre-check" and i said yep.

This is true (international itineraries do not qualify for Pre-check).

So why the attitude? Why make it a power issue? Why not just say, "I'm asking because international itineraries are ineligible"?

I'm waiting for someone to say 'Rome' (NY) and get the 3 beeps anyway. :p