They actually pulled me after the metal detector and swabbed my hands, that was a first.

Ooh.

At least I've avoided the body scanners and aggressive pat down so far.

I got the pat-down over Thanksgiving, and the best part was after the guy put his hands all over me, he swabbed his own hands. In case I was a human bomb.

Homemade jam is very good. Which I know is obvious, but I had never eaten any...I won some in the Daily Kos auction...today I had a peanut butter and elderberry jam sandwich. the canner was right...it is almost like grape.

In case I was a human bomb.

Apparently you da bomb!

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Ironic that he chose to say it with poo.

At least he didn't fling it at you.

And of course, someone beat me to this comment.

Gotta love the TSA. I'm at the same airport I was at last week. Same security line, same security folks, same items in my bag. I removed the MacBook Air this time since I got chastised last time and left my iPad in the bag, exactly as had been done on the rescreening last week. This time I get chided for not removing the iPad. It's been a long while since that's been pulled for screening. They even asked, based on the xray, if it was an iPad inside before the removed and rescreened.

I just ask, VERY NICELY, if we are taking x, y or z out today. The answer changes. I just go with it.

And of course, someone beat me to this comment.

Great minds...

I just ask, VERY NICELY, if we are taking x, y or z out today.

Also a policy I usually use. Of course at MCO I got yelled at for not listening to them when I did that and for holding up the line. Basically I'm traveling enough that I'm going to run into problematic TSA officers no matter what I do.

They actually pulled me after the metal detector and swabbed my hands, that was a first.

... because of the explosive residue from your iPad?

Who knows, could have been the explosive residue from Kaylee's kibble.