Highest of Highs - Lowest of Lows
I've been lurking through all of these posts since page 10 and thanks to all of you I have been losing sleep for the past 5 nights. Every morning I have been waking up thinking about that stupid phone. Here are my stats followed by a story that is sure to amuse you and maybe even make you feel better:
Pre-order: 6am CT 9/12
Model: 4.7" 64gb Space Grey
Received email / texts from tmobile confirming that my phone would be here today 9/19.
Customer service: 1-4 week run around and no real idea of when the phone would come
UPS: have a label created, shipped out of Kentucky and the departure scan was complete - per UPS delivery by 3pm Monday, 9/22 NOT 9/19 as Tmobile promised.
The story:
I took a half day off work today just in case "my precious" came so that I could play. I rarely get this excited about tech, the last time I can remember this level of enthusiasm was when MW2 came out or even before then when the Wii first came out in 2006.
Around 6pm I see the UPS truck pull up in front of my house. I yell (while holding my 5 month old daughter) UPS is here!!!!!. Gently, I run down the stairs and got handed a package from the delivery guy. I came back into the house, package in hand, cheering. Literally cheering, like a little kid on Christmas. My two boys ran upstairs and my oldest said, "Daddy, is that your phone?" Even they are aware of my utter fixation with this week's events.
It's a parade up the stairs, baby in one arm, package in the other as I call on 1997 and raise the roof. We all gather around the dining room table, huddled over this package like the first cavemen who discovered fire. I start to cut it open and right then my wife says - in what may have been a slow motion sentence - "Is that addressed to you, or me?". I slice the package open as my heart is racing, my greedy little eyes are bugging out of my head in complete ecstasy and I find... Phineas and Perry characters for Disney's XBOX 360 Infinity, an early order my wife placed ONE DAY AGO as she starts gearing up for Christmas shopping.
In that moment I sunk, like the titanic, I didn't see the iceberg coming. Like Anderson Silva, I had no idea my shin was going to break in half, like Simba watching his father fall to his death.
And that, my fellow fanatical iPhone friends, is how I experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows.
I will continue to lurk and read your comments. I couldn't keep this story to myself. I felt like a complete fool, it was actually hilarious and the wife and I were laughing pretty hard about it. She saw me transform into the 8 year old who thought he got the NES of his dreams, only to find a shoebox filled with socks.