waiting

15 minutes to go. Guy from store: “being in line doesn’t guarantee you’ll get one.”

Two hours to go, 85 people in line.

The rumors are that the AT&T store here has about 30 phones. Nobody is talking about how many our Apple Store has.

26 people in line. At least one is hoping to auction his, three are being paid, and nobody wants the cheap one.

Suited security guy with square jaw and angry expression grunts at us as he confirms plans with store manager. He’s from management, and though we couldn’t overhear much, we did realize he was headed off to the AT&T store next. All of us remained silent as we watched him stomp off in the wrong direction.

Arrived at 8am to find four parties ahead of me. The first arrived at 7am, after repeatedly being chased out of the mall parking lot last night.