It's been a loooooong day. I nearly lost my Hobbit Hole knife to the TSA. Fortunately I had enough time to take it bake to the car.
I had gone through my briefcase, and removed the spare HH knife and everything else. I remembered to leave my swiss army knife in my desk.
As I was stepping up to the metal detector, I pulled my hand out of my pocket, and felt my knife catch on my wrist. The screener looked up, motioned me to come through. I just pulled it out and held it up, and told 'em I knew it would set the machine off.
TSA bastiges... they gots no sense of humor...
egads ;~D
I've seen mail stations near the end of the lines at SeaTac... where you can stick any banned items in the mail if you don't want to lose them.