That's so strange, since I have the same feelings at my local liquor store. Two cashiers but no distinct lines. I stand in the middle. :)
Waiting for one or the other to open. Rather than choose, I decide to split the difference and take the consequences.

I do enjoy your perspective.

Thank you. I wrote this thinking of several different things, but I'm pleased the first take you had on it wasn't political (I was afraid it might have been painted too narrowly).

Nah. I see politics as either right or wrong, not left or right. :)