My iPhone Story!

As some of you know, I am the "Techno Geek" of the three of us and having said that a HUGE Apple supporter. The date was June 29th, on that morning I was at Bedford Hospital having surgery on my eye. I went to bed after coming home and rested comfortably. At 5:30 that afternoon I got out of bed and got dressed and told my wife "it was time"!

"Time for what"? she said. "It's time to get in the car and take me to the AT&T store. I am getting the iPhone"! Well to say the least, my wife was not happy with this thought. It was very hot that day (in the 90's) and the last thing on her mind was to take me to the AT&T store to buy a phone, especially after having surgery that very day.

I begged and pleaded and it was getting very close to 6pm which was the time when the iPhone was going on sale. She finally said OK and we were off to buy the iPhone. I thought that while I knew there would be lines of people to buy this thing because of all the hype that Apple was getting I would be OK because we were going to a store that would hopefully not have a lot of people clamoring to get it. Boy was I wrong!

We got into line (I think I was the 60th person in line) and waited, and waited, and waited! It was actually kind of fun waiting in line. I met some very interesting people who like me was really getting psyched to get this new "business tool". After about an hour and a half we got to the door and it was going to be our turn next to go inside the store and purchase the iPhone.

The door opened and we were greeted by a very nice sales person. "I would like to buy the iPhone please" I said eagerly. "I'm sorry sir, we just ran out of the iPhone, but we can order it for you". At this point I think the drugs from the surgery started to kick in because I didn't take the news very well. "You mean I waited in line for over an hour and a half and you couldn't at least tell us that you were out of stock"? At that point I was not having a good day and left the store thinking that I was not getting my iPhone.

Later that night I noticed that the Apple Store at Legacy had plenty in stock and they were open till midnight. Though I was ready to make the drive to Legacy I knew I had put my wife through iPhone hell so there was no way I was going to say "Oh honey, yes I know it's 11pm but what do you think about getting in the car and driving your poor iPhone deprived husband to the Apple Store". So, I went to bed knowing that there was an iPhone in my future but it would have to wait till tomorrow.

Yes, I did finally got the iPhone at the Apple Store the very next day. I've used it for almost a month now and I have to say it's pretty cool. Was it worth the hype and all the "trouble" my wife went through to get it. YES! I'm sorry, I love this stuff, and despite the problems it was well worth the "wait".