Waitin' For The iPhone

I hit the line at my local AT&T store around 7:30 and waited 'til 8:30 on Friday just be told that they were all out so I hopped the train and headed to NYC (only a 15 min ride) to wait in another AT&T line downtown. Same results, I moved up to about 20th in line and was told that they were sold out. From there I went to a 3rd store and waited another 20 mins when one of the reps came out and announced that they had only 8GB phones left.

I went back to the office to sulk. My lunch appointment called and asked that we postpone for 30 mins so I surfed the web and caught the chatter from people waiting in line at the 3 Apple Stores in Manhattan. The Apple Stores still had phones! I was sorely tempted to hit the Soho store and put other plans on hold but that would have caused too much turmoil. Instead I had a nice lunch with Ramandeep and then headed for the beach with the family.

That night I checked Apple's iPhone stock status page and saw that the Atlantic City store had phones. I filed that bit of info in the back of my mind and thought, "Ah, if I find I've got nothing better to do..." I was up and out early Saturday and hit the line at 8:45 for the 10:00 store opening. I was 6th in line and voila, walked out of the store with my phone at 10:30 in the morning!