Cutting in line...
Jun 10, 2019, 6:07 pm
#46
Join Date: Sep 2018
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I'm in the habit of just putting my wallet in the bowl as well, I swear it has set off the metal detector before when I had no other metal on me, and those closest thing to metal in my wallet would've been magnetic strips on credit cards... Metal detectors seem pretty inconsistent anyways, I've walked through the metal detector with my belt on many times without setting it off, but just last week the same belt set off the detector for the first time. And I almost always put my keys in my laptop bag on the parking shuttle since I won't be needing them, but one time I forgot and didn't realize they were still in my pocket until my destination, so they obviously didn't set off the metal detector. There were 4 keys and a remote on the ring, really surprised it didn't set it off. Fortunately I had remembered to remove the quick-release half of my key chain, with several less-used keys... and a small pocket knife!
(sorry for the thread derail)
Jun 10, 2019, 6:54 pm
#47
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Colorado
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Right, but OP said they didn't have anything for the x-ray line, therefore no computer bag to put the phone into...
I'm in the habit of just putting my wallet in the bowl as well, I swear it has set off the metal detector before when I had no other metal on me, and those closest thing to metal in my wallet would've been magnetic strips on credit cards... Metal detectors seem pretty inconsistent anyways, I've walked through the metal detector with my belt on many times without setting it off, but just last week the same belt set off the detector for the first time. And I almost always put my keys in my laptop bag on the parking shuttle since I won't be needing them, but one time I forgot and didn't realize they were still in my pocket until my destination, so they obviously didn't set off the metal detector. There were 4 keys and a remote on the ring, really surprised it didn't set it off. Fortunately I had remembered to remove the quick-release half of my key chain, with several less-used keys... and a small pocket knife!
(sorry for the thread derail)
I'm in the habit of just putting my wallet in the bowl as well, I swear it has set off the metal detector before when I had no other metal on me, and those closest thing to metal in my wallet would've been magnetic strips on credit cards... Metal detectors seem pretty inconsistent anyways, I've walked through the metal detector with my belt on many times without setting it off, but just last week the same belt set off the detector for the first time. And I almost always put my keys in my laptop bag on the parking shuttle since I won't be needing them, but one time I forgot and didn't realize they were still in my pocket until my destination, so they obviously didn't set off the metal detector. There were 4 keys and a remote on the ring, really surprised it didn't set it off. Fortunately I had remembered to remove the quick-release half of my key chain, with several less-used keys... and a small pocket knife!
(sorry for the thread derail)
Jun 10, 2019, 8:57 pm
#48
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: NYC
Posts: 419
"And when we say there is none, we mean there is a certain amount."
Nothing to be scanned means nothing to be scanned.
https://www.theslot.com/literal.html
Seth
Nothing to be scanned means nothing to be scanned.
https://www.theslot.com/literal.html
Seth
Last edited by sethweinstein; Jun 10, 2019 at 9:21 pm
Jun 12, 2019, 9:25 pm
#49
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: DSM
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I was at a relatively small airport the other day, too small for a dedicated precheck line, and there was a huge family unit with kids and multiple bags per person and all sorts of things that are holding up the line. I have absolutely nothing to scan, I just need to walk through the magnetometer. While the family unit is trying to figure out the shoes, the baby’s, the bags, etc., I just walked around them and presented myself at the magnetometer. Whoa! Big mistake. The TSA lady had a fit and proudly announced to the entire line that I had just cut in front of each and every one of them. She then tells me that I have to ask permission from each person that I had “cut in front of...”.
And of course I did have plenty of time to kill, and upon reflection, maybe should have just stood there and waited. It seemed silly that there was a stall in the line and it didn’t occur to me that anybody would get bent out of shape, much less the TSA lady. I see things like that all the time at larger airports - you clear the ID guy and then head for the scanner. You don’t go get behind 20 people sticking bags on the conveyor belt when you have no bags.
Note to self - “self, don’t ‘cut’ in line at those small airports...!”
And of course I did have plenty of time to kill, and upon reflection, maybe should have just stood there and waited. It seemed silly that there was a stall in the line and it didn’t occur to me that anybody would get bent out of shape, much less the TSA lady. I see things like that all the time at larger airports - you clear the ID guy and then head for the scanner. You don’t go get behind 20 people sticking bags on the conveyor belt when you have no bags.
Note to self - “self, don’t ‘cut’ in line at those small airports...!”
Jun 13, 2019, 5:39 pm
#51
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Oct 16, 2019, 8:24 am
#52
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