AT&T failed.

I went this morning to pick up an iPhone.

I went to the AT&T on Libbie because there's an Einstein's there. I got there at about 7:00 and there were only a couple of people out front so I had a leisurely bacon, egg and cheddar bagel and coffee. Very leisurely. I wasn't really interested in standing around in line forever.

When I walked outside, there were news people there getting ready to interview line-waiters. There were only about a dozen people outside the door. So the news guy was saying, "...and the line strrrrretches aROUND the building," as if there were a mob of screaming freaks over there. I waited until he was done because I didn't want to be on camera. When he finished filming, I walked around the corner of the building where the line was "stretching." Yes, indeed. There were at least another twelve people there. Whoop-de-doo.

So I joined the line and made small talk with a couple of the other guys in line. The sun was coming up and I was beginning to roast. It wasn't the heat, of course. It was the humidity.

We soon began to move toward the door. Then we stopped to roast some more. A very corporate-looking man in a white shirt came around with a clipboard asking everyone which model phone they wanted. Apparently, everyone (including me) wanted the 16G phone in black. I was about 30th in line and it seemed they only had 29 16G phones in black. So I just got out of line and came home.

ANTICLIMAX!