If there’s one phenomenon that I find fascinating, it’s lines.  Whenever a line forms somewhere, it’s front-page news.  The latest example of this is the PlayStation3 line hysteria that is sweeping the media.  But it doesn’t matter that it was the PS3 – it could have been anything, and as soon as a line started forming people would have gotten into it.  It’s been over a year since the last good line.  People were craving it.

Person1:  “It’s been a while since we’ve gone camping.”

Person2:  “Well, there haven’t been any good movies.”

But a new wrinkle has developed in this story.  Suddenly the line situation in this country seems to have become a divisive issue.  On the one hand, there are those people who will get into any line, no matter where it leads or what it’s for. 

Person1:  “Did you hear about the new videogame that’s coming out?”

Person2:  “Yeah.  So what?”

Person1:  “I hear people might line up for it.”
Person2:  “You get the tent.  I’ll call into work and quit.”

On the other hand, there seems to be people that are stridently anti-line, for reasons that I can’t even fathom.

Person1:  “Did you hear about the new videogame that’s coming out?”

Person2:  “Yeah.  So what?”

Person1:  “I hear people might line up for it.”
Person2:  “Get my gun.”

I’m surprised the line issue wasn’t a larger factor in the mid-term elections.

-FG

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