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The checkout divider is the ultimate test whether the person in front and behind you is capable of minding their own fucking business.
The checkout divider is always available on the conveyor belt. It's not mandatory to put it between your shopping, and the conveyor belt will move with and without the bar. It's an unspoken item everyone knows how to use.
A few inches between your groceries is perfectly fine. Putting a divider between yours and my groceries marks you as a heathen beast. You deliberately reached for the bar to divide me and you with an uncaring, almost apathetic attitude. Yet, you feel superior. You feel good that you divided the groceries. You enjoy building barriers that are not neccesary, as you stand there with your smooth brain, unable to comprehend that these obstacles only slow down the system that is the conveyor belt. And as you keep on building these obstacles, at the corner of your eye, you glimpse towards the people who don't have dividers. Scared of the intrusive thought that maybe you did this out of your own hubris, you fail to confront your ego, and so you quickly avert your face towards the exit. These people are long gone, hidden sociopaths that hide their disgust with their fellow folk by this subtle gesture.
tl;dr : If you put a shopping divider as I'm standing behind you in a grocery store, I will beat you to death in the parking lot.
