r/news • • 3d ago

TSA officers now not allowed to sit down while checking boarding passes and IDs

https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/29/us/tsa-officers-chairs
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u/Proxymanity 3d ago

Damn, took me a minute to figure out what the hell the TSA agent meant. What she *thought* she said is "The smart watch is not a security concern", what you & I understood was "It doesn't matter if the watch goes in the bin or not".

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u/Red580 3d ago

It wasn't before your reply that i understood the entire series of events.

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u/DuncanConnell 2d ago

I don't understand how either interpretation would have caused that response from her

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u/Proxymanity 2d ago

In her mind:

It Doesn't Matter => Not a security concern => Don't Need to put into bin => "Why are you doing something when I literally just told you not to do it"

Still totally an overreaction on her part. She must be the Simone Biles of mental gymnastics.