(This post was begun on June 25th – the day the hard drive in the iMac crashed. Forgive the late post.)
June 24th was release day for the iPhone 4G. I got all caught up in the feeding frenzy, attempted to pre-order and made plans to drive to Austin to “pick up my new phone”. I knew it was going to be crowded. I knew I’d be miserable for a few hours while I struggled with my crowd-phobia. But I figured the new phone on the first day was enough of a reward to actually try and do it.
And maybe just the excitement of driving myself to Austin solo was an overriding motivator.
A week beforehand, on the day I pre-ordered, I got the Magellan out of the Jeep and programmed in the address at “The Domain” in Austin and planned my morning out – I’d do the basic necessities for work and then hit the road about 10ish with the idea that I’d be out there until 3 at the latest at which time I’d come home and put in a couple more hours of work afterwards.
I know I was fooling myself about the putting in work while the new iPhone sat waiting to be played with, but I comforted myself with the idea that I was being responsible.
The drive to Austin was uneventful. I did really well for someone who hasn’t done a lot of driving on her own in the States. I didn’t cause any major highway mishaps or brake lockups and I didn’t get lost either. In fact, I drove right to the front door as if I had been there before.
I was quite pleased with myself …… until I saw the line:
… and was told that this was GOOD because at 7:30 the line extended around the block!
Well, to my credit I stood in that line (sometimes sitting on the sidewalk) until I had travelled about 1/4 of the way to the front of the line at which time the heat and humidity (and pants that don’t do well in the heat) made me decide that pre-order or no, I wasn’t going to site there until 7pm that night only to get a claim ticket to have to drive another hour back to Austin to pick up my phone before end of business on Saturday.
Got back into the a/c cooled Jeep and drove my ass home … and promptly fired up the apple website and ordered my iPhone 4 to be delivered to my door whenever.
I may be a big apple fan, but fangirl I ain’t. ugh.
No related posts.
Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.