Ever since the first whisper of it was in the air I wanted it and I wanted it in a BAD WAY. I wanted it so bad that I watched the entire unveiling. I wanted it so bad that when mother's day rolled around and the husband started pointing out different jewelry ads I turned to him and told him there was only one thing I wanted. I wanted IT. BAD. I wanted it so bad that I have held on to a cell phone that can only hold 15 minutes of talk time charge for 6 months now. (If I am talking to you on my cell, chances are I am in the car and the phone is plugged in.) I wanted it so bad I watched the commercials teary eyed with kleenex in my hand, on line before they even aired on television. I wanted it so bad I could taste it, except I couldn't because it wouldn't come out until today.
I was just about delirious when I thought that I could wander into any old AT&T store and snag one. There is never the mania around stuff out here in sleepy suburbia that there is in the city. For example, when the lottery gets really big and lines are around the block in the city I can just amble into my friendly neighborhood liquor store step right up to the front counter, hand over my dollar and go for the dream. Just as easy as pie, no fuss, no hassle.
So I wasn't really overly concerned about today. I figured I would avoid the obvious Apple Store in the mall, and go for the little wireless phone hovels that dot the landscape around here. My plan today was to stalk the local AT&T store. I considered each one carefully, there were several to choose from, weighed each individual store's pro's and con's, and decided which would be least likely to be mobbed. I drove by my chosen store around 2, prepared to bribe Josh with pizza, ice cream, and toys, all of which were readily and conveniently available in the same strip mall, and to my surprise there was absolutely no activity around the AT&T store. Getting nervous I parked and entered only to hear the bad news. Regular stores wouldn't be selling iphones, only corporate outlets would have them. Bah!! The sad, but nice, guy behind the counter, after learning of my parental inability to stand in line for the remainder of the day (I just pointed at Josh) thought that my best plan of action would be to just order my iphone on line and give up the dream of getting one on the first day.
I hung my head and shuffled defeated out of the store. I flipped open my old broken down not cool sucky phone and called the husband to report the bad news.
At 3:30 I got a call from the husband on his cell phone. It is unusual for him to call me on his cell while at work sitting beside his land line so I asked where he was. Guess. Oh yes he was! He really was, yep, he was on line at a corporate outlet waiting to buy me an iphone. What a doll! I jumped for joy, did a little happy dance and promised him a big reward tonight!!
I wanted to phone him at 5:30 and tell him 30 more minutes! I wanted to phone him at 5:55 and tell him 5 more minutes! I wanted to phone him at 6:01, 6:03, 6:09 6:16, and every minute after that but I held off until 6:22. I phoned him and he was in the store! He was just a geeky tech-kid away from technological history! At 6:36 he called me and he had the goods!! Yahoo!! Right now I am anxiously awaiting email confirmation from AT&T or Apple, or someone because GAH I tried to sign up, but lord knows what I did wrong because I was informed that my LAST step was taking too long and that I would be emailed when my activation was processed. Damn, I have a processing problem! I knew it!!
But until I am activated I can still sit around and caress my iphone touch screen.
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