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We used to (great research by the way), but now a new notion has taken hold. It must be from lemming training at the bank, post office, airport security, motor vehicle division, or perhaps some other government agencies which I have managed to avoid, so far.The Atlantic Monthly -- about as East Coast an institution as has ever existed -- did a survey a few years back to get to the bottom of the "on line" vs. "in line" thing, and came up with this interesting graphic:
As you can see, New York City is the nexus for "on line," but it's well represented in other Northeastern states. Vermont, however, seems to be rather militantly opposed to it. They're very independent folk in that state. I'm also surprised it hasn't penetrated more heavily into Florida, given the large population of New York expatriates there.
Seems like few people stand on line or in line in the mountain states. Guess you get right to the window quick there.
Instead of lining up (consider that my ballot cast), there's this crazy new thing taking hold where people stand back like there's a tape and a sign saying, wait here for the next available clerk. But there is no tape. Nobody really knows where here is. Everybody just mills around eying each other out of the corner of their eye.
It makes me want to bark out what I heard in elementary school: "Line up! Single file!"
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