Omg an agent here finally finally answered the most pressing question I've had and I want to draw attention to it!!

User Demented Husker said something about the signage at TSA that I've been wondering for years!!!

"Signs are regulated nationally not airport by airport, the ones at mine are technically correct but only for 2 of the X-Ray’s"

This has been my absolute most annoying experience. I read the sign, 10 minutes later I'm attempting to do what the sign says, and an agent is yelling at me "ma'am why are you taking your laptop out?" LITERALLY BECAUSE THE SIGN SAYS TO.

Hallelujah!!

Except.

Now that means I really need to listen closely to agents shouting and let me tell you something about agents shouting....

It's never just one. All five of them are shouting across a hundred people chattering and I can't hear it correctly.

Plus, if Demented Husk is telling us that different lines have different directions, which of the five or six agents am I supposed to listen to shouting when I don't know what line I'm going to end up in?

#NO WONDER EVERYONE IS FRUSTRATED

So now I ignore the sign, and I ignore the six people shouting until I find out which *one* person I should listen to.

But I don't know that until I'm very close and that person hasn't shouted in at least 90 seconds...

So I get in front of you. I look at you "expectantly", which you interpret as "stupidly" because you've been shouting for the last hour, right?

And I've been in line for the last 20 minutes, right?

So why am I so stupid, right?

No.

Actually, this is literally the first moment that I knew I was going to be in your specific line and needing to listen to your specific shouting instructions between the five other specific shouted instructions.

Crazy. Nuts.