What's your opinion on the TSA?

Perhaps the hullabaloo over the scanners and pat downs has died down, but I was thinking about how people complain about the security checks at airports compared to my recent experience with airport security.

I didn’t have a bad experience at all. I was fully expecting to be pat down and shoved into a scanner but it never happened. At one airport they actually had one of those full body scanners but the TSA workers only made me go through a metal detector. I wasn’t pat down or even looked at with unwarranted suspicion throughout my entire traveling experience and I went through four international airports.

The only fishy thing was that I was subjected to a random test and all they did was swab my hand and send me on my way.

I was left with the feeling that the complaints about TSA searches were a bit melodramatic. I’ve seen one video where a grown, middle-aged woman refused to step into the scanner and proceeded to scream that she was being molested and needed an adult when they patted her down.

If you’ve been to an airport recently, what was your experience?