Pet Peeves of a Frequent Traveler

I travel for the company on a fairly regular basis, and have learned over the years that there are tricks to making the trip easier and more efficient. Things like stowing your loose change in your luggage before you get to the security area can help to speed up the check-in process, since you will have less to remove from your pockets as you go through the metal detector. And while I try to employ several little tricks like this one to help out the cause, there are a lot of travelers who seem to have a real knack for aggravating the dickens out of everyone else in the terminal or on the plane. Follow me through the process here, and see if you haven't also been a victim of the obnoxious traveler.

a) The obnoxious traveler at the ticket counter. If I am in a hurry, it seems like the guy in front of me is always at his slowest. He doesn't have his photo ID ready to show the ticket agent. He whines about not getting an aisle seat, even though he didn't reserve a ticket until the day before the flight. He can't decide whether to check both of his bags or just one. The bag he does check is 8 pounds overweight, and he has to re-adjust the contents to keep from paying the surcharge. He decides at the very last second that there is a magazine that needs to be retrieved from a checked bag. His checked bags don't have any personal ID on them, and the agent has to put on one of those paper ID tags that the airline offers. All of these things take up precious time that can cause the line to creep along at a snail's pace.