+978 Nobody really knows what that plastic thing you use to separate your groceries from other people's groceries at the checkout at the grocery store is called, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

A divider?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That's exactly what I said in the same questioning tone.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It is called a spratchet

by Anonymous 9 years ago

Spratchet

by Anonymous 9 years ago

A separator

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The thing.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

A whatchamacallit

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I didn't even know it had a technical name...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

its called the stick of separation

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The divider stick thingymajig is what I usually call it

by Anonymous 14 years ago

it's a supertigeryanfferlike. i really don't know

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's actually called a divider. Thats what we call them as the manufacturer. They come in either rectangular dividers or triangular dividers; with or without logos, with or without ads.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I think they have aids

by Anonymous 14 years ago

theyre definitely called dividers...

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I work as a cashier and we call them line dividers.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I call it "the stick thing that seperates customers orders"

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Uh The-grocery-seperator-thingy-ma-bob?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It's called a partition.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Its obviously called ' that handy thing that seperates my grociers from the guy behind me'

by Anonymous 14 years ago

you wave your hands and say "the thing" to call it a name.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

what i want to know is what those little tabs that hold bread bags together are called.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

i twisty tie? i duno.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It really is called a partition. But it hardly matters. It's just there to keep your precious stuff from touching the other shoppers' precious stuff, amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It is called a spratchet

by Anonymous 9 years ago