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Dear Margar-etiquette, I travel fairly often, and I’m always surprised by how rude people can become at the airport—especially going through TSA. I understand people are stressed, but is there etiquette around dealing with airport employees and security staff? Frequent Flyer Dear Flyer, Airports may be one of the greatest modern tests of everyday manners.

Do, please, stay long enough to read this brief post. Your compiler is writing about taking leave of premises, not imploring his readers actually to do so! Who, besides perhaps a lawyer or a judge (verbiage after the ellipsis points in the title excepted) would put it so rigidly as, “Please take leave of the premises.”? A simple ,  “Thank you for coming by,” is generally enough to do the dislodging trick, if one is trying to maintain politeness in hinting it’s time for guests to leave.