Well, I finally got an iPhone.
Anyone who knows me knows that it’s been a long time coming. I even wrote about it on my blog a while back. I had this plan to read through the Bible and then go buy one when I was finished. It was a good plan too. I would read some and then post some of my notes on the blog. I was enjoying the accountability and everything was moving along just fine until several of my friends told me that I had the most boring blog in the world. ”Lame,” they said.
So, I gave up. And then I forgot about it.
BTW, I do still read the Bible regularly during my personal time. I just prefer using a reading plan like this one, as opposed to strictly reading it all the way through book by book.
…And then months went by…and the price went down…and then the day finally arrived…
I was the first person in line at the Oxford store. I meant to get to the store between 5:30 and 6a because I had been warned by ATT employees to get there early if I wanted to get one. But then I woke up at 4 and couldn’t go back to sleep.
I pulled in the parking lot at 4:30a and listened to the BBC alone in the parking lot for about 20 minutes before the second person in line showed up. He was a nice older man who was buying a phone for his daughter. We spent the next 3 hours trying to figure out the HAM Radio he had bought the day before (Irony?).
By 5:15, there were about 8 of us.
By 6, closer to 15
By 8am, the line stretched to the end of the building and the excitement was growing.
Then they opened the door and the iPocalypse began.
I stood in the store for over an hour and watched all of the iTunes screens at all of the kiosks show the same thing – nothing. I also watched all the people (this guy included, I suppose) wait in the rising heat for a chance to come in the store.
About 9:30, they let me take the phone home unactivated and by 10:30a, it was fully operational.
Just in time for me to take a nap.
