Last week I was going through security at ORD and this hipster was in front of me as we were preparing to place our items through the security scanner. This guy had a suitcase, a duffle bag, a laptop bag, and a backpack. He put his coat in the first bin. He took some sweatshirts out of the duffle bag and placed them in a bin, as if he had been wearing them as outer garments. The then took four plastic bags of toiletries and placed them in a bin. In the fourth bin he placed his Kindle. The fifth bin was for his belt and jewelry. He put his shoes in the sixth bin and somehow did not get scolded. Then he realized he hadn't cleared his pockets and put the cell phone and change in the seventh bin.

He rolled up the duffle bag and put it into his suitcase, and then placed the suitcase, laptop bag, and backpack through the scanner.

As I was watching this unfold I was thinking it was amateur hour, but it became clear to me this was his routine because he did it so quickly and repacked swiftly on the other side of the scanner.