Well on Saturday of the weekend just gone I decided to buy an iPhone. The day before I checked the train timetable and set my alarm appropriately. I knew there had been long queues at the apple store, and that it opened at 8am. So I planned to get there in plenty of time.

In actual fact I arrived at 7:30, only to discover there were around 10-15 people in the queue already. At this stage I didn’t realise how long it would take before I would get my iPhone, so I queued up…

While i waited for the store to open, I amused myself by watching the security guard strut around inside the store, bolstered by his ability to walk around freely inside while we stood outside in the cold. By the time the apple store opened at 8:00, there were quite a number of people queued behind me. At least 10 or so.

The apple store employee let some of us inside, only to queue again on the other side of the glass we’d been gazing through for the last 30 minutes. Eventually we were led upstairs, to queue up once more, this time divided by our phone carrier of choice.

TBC…
(this post written entirely from my iPhone)