That airport security guy who guessed my whole career in one look

Last fall I was waiting in line at O'Hare, exhausted after moving a family's 3-bedroom house in one day. The TSA agent waved me over and just said, "You haul stuff for a living, right?" I asked how he knew and he pointed at my callused palms and the way I held my ID like a tool. He told me he spent 12 years as a mover before this job and could spot us from across the room. It was weirdly nice to be seen like that, not just as another passenger. Does anyone else have a random stranger who sized you up perfectly in seconds? What was their tell?

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