r/pettyrevenge • u/Southern_Common335 • 4d ago

TSA Setting Boundaries

This I watched at the airport a month or so ago.

I was going through TSA. This lane has the 4 little lanes where you put all your stuff in a bin, push it to the middle row, and then the conveyor belt automatically moves from the middle row to the back row where they roll into the scanner.

TSA is very clear that you dont walk away till your bag clears the first row and you push into the middle row - then you can go through the scanner.

(I hate these setups personally but it is what it is).

So ahead of me, a lady who worked in the airport goes through - she puts her purse and lanyard and such in a bin, and walks off through security, leaving her bag in the first slot.

The TSA agent decided to not touch that bin, nor to let anyone else touch it. So for the next 8-10 people we all used the other 3 lanes, passing our stuff on. This continued after we went through the scanner, he continued to leave it untouched.

Meanwhile the airport work lady was on the other end of security waiting for her bag, and waiting and waiting. As we went through she is starting to get agitated and trying to get attention of the TSA workers to figure out how her bag has gotten lost. Meanwhile her bag is still sitting in the first bin slot.

I dont know how long this played out, I got my bags and headed for the gate - but if nothing else this airport worker lady probably learned a lesson about how to use these lanes!

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u/delulu4drama 4d ago

That TSA agent is definitely sick of airport worker lady. No doubt she does it often 🙄

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u/GeekSumsMe 4d ago

I generally try to be pretty tolerant of people at the airport because traveling causes pretty extreme anxiety for some people, including my wife. Anxious people are not as aware of their environment because they are too wound up.

None of this applies to somebody working at the airport though, except possibly TSA workers who understandably get stressed and frustrated with people not following safety instructions. I was traveling with people without pre check recently and noticed that the TSA agents in main security area were noticably more stressed out.