The TSA had a new one for me in CLE a couple weeks ago. Instead of just looking at my crew ID, he had me take it out of the plastic holder on my lanyard and sat there bending it and looking at it like he thought it was fake. Spent more time on my ID then on the regular passengers DLs.

When the rest of the crew and I went through security they pulled one of our flight attendants bag to manually check it because she did not take her DVD player out. They told her they treat them the same as laptops. She said "oh... I go through security at a lot of airports and I've never been told that before. Is that just a CLE thing and why don't your people announce that to the people in line when they yell about taking out laptops?" You would think our FA reached back and slapped the TSA lady across the face with the look she got after questioning the screener's "authority." Anyone else having DVD issues now?

My biggest beef with the TSA is they are slow, rude and they can't manage to be consistent from airport to airport, let alone 2 different checkpoints in the same terminal! How does this make us secure?