This evening I spent some time in a security line at Schiphol - which seemed to be particularly slow-moving.

The reason for the slow progress became apparent when I observed those who were ahead of me... it seemed that none of them were ready for the x-ray machine when it was their turn, and much time was wasted while people took off their coats and went through their pockets and emptied out loose coins, pens, keys, more loose coins and more pens and more keys.

And these weren't once-a-year leisure travellers (whom I would cut some slack) - most of them were men in suits, with quite a few KLM Platinum and Gold baggage tags dangling from their briefcases.

When I'm queuing for a security check I always try to organise myself so that in most cases all I have to do is put my bags and coat on the belt and walk through. I take my coat off while I'm waiting, I check my pockets while I'm waiting, and if I'm in North America I make sure my laptop is easily accessible... so that hopefully I'm not holding anybody up unnecessarily.

I would estimate that each of these disorganised businessmen probably added up to 30 seconds to my wait, so with about 20 of them in front of me that was an additional 10 minutes' wait (and I was on a tight connection, so that ten minutes could have made the difference between catching my flight and not catching it!)

I didn't say anything - I just felt a bit annoyed that these people couldn't have got themselves better organised. Was my annoyance justified?