This is important.
I agree: especially to those wrongly on any “lists”. WHen I fly these days (which is rare thank God), here’s what I do:
1) I wear rubber flip-flops, shorts (even in the winter) and a wife beater: that way I have little to search and I don’t have to do the shoe routine usually.
2) I carry only my ticket, my ID, occasionally my cell phone, and a few bucks cash (no coins).
3) I check ALL luggage.
4) I hold my arms in the air when going through the detector.
5) I keep my mouth shut and look directly at all TSA people giving orders.
6) I head right to the bar after stopping by the news shop to get reading & smoking materials (although you can smoke in a scant few airports in one of those death chambers where you don’t even really need to light a cig, just breathe the air) and get as drunk as possible.
7) Once on the plane, I pray to God to get us all safely wherever we are going and stay in my seat.
8) Once landed & deboarded, I pick up my bags and get the hell outta the airport ASAP.