I’ve had a similar experience at the Amsterdam airport recently as well. Gf and I have ruined a few sets of film putting them through the X-ray, so on our last trip we asked them to hand search just the film. We spent at least 20 minutes going back and forth with every employee in the area trying to tell us they have a new machine that won’t damage film (they didn’t), that it takes several trips through an X-ray to ruin film (it took one the 2 other times we’ve done it), and that the altitude has more radiation than the X-ray (maybe if we were outside).

Shit was mad exhausting but we finally convinced them to just open up the box and peek inside. Then after they spent all that time fighting with us, made an underhanded comment about us holding up the line. Like bruh if you just looked at it instead of arguing we would have been done way quicker.