Originally Posted by
sandrich
This. The exact reason why I commute out of uniform. Even if I just got off duty, I change my shirt. The extra 10 seconds to take my shoes off for TSA is completely worth avoiding all the dumb questions from passengers IMO.
Exactly. Last time I commuted in uniform, the tool next to me wanted to talk about crashes. How does that happen? Why did that happen? What did the pilots do wrong on that one? Yeah, my favorite subject. Not.