Oh Keith, you’re ruining my life…(or how I tried to buy and iPhone4 and failed) **UPDATE**
I was up with the lark on Thursday morning. Okay maybe not actually with the early rising larks but it was early. Okay not actually early by modern standards. To be exact I was up with the people who were likely to be late for work at 9am. Anyhoo I was up early, for me, and I had a smile on my face, for you see today was the day I got my new iPhone.
Oh huzzah, oh happy day! The wait was over. Crikey was I excited. Don't judge me!
I chatted with the taxi chap and laughed along with his pitiful banter.
I skipped through town even as the rain fell with a big beaming smile.
I dropped change into the Romanian chap's bucket and patted the head of a small boy who was trying to steal a bike. He called me a pedophile, the cheeky scamp.
I didn't care for today was the day I was getting my new iPhone4. Huzzah!
My heart skipped a beat as I entered the precious O2 store with it's buzzing strip light and polo shirt clad assistants with "ASK ME" badges.
"Hello.." I checked his badge "...Keith, can I get an iPhone4 please, 32g"
Oh my but this was exciting.
"Aye mate...", says Keith "...we don't have none."
"We don't have none."
"We. Don't. Have. None." I ran this around my brain for a bit, checking it against the script for today. This wasn't on the script. I needed clarification.
"Oh...you don't have none...I mean any...well actually you mean any."
"You don't have any?"
"Nah mate, we don't have none."
Okay, okay no need to panic but I could feel the rage building. It wasn't supposed to be like this. By now I was supposed to be sitting down and agreeing on my new contract not staring into the chest of a man called Keith. This was a ghastly turn up for the books and no mistake.
"So, when will you have some in stock?"
"Dunno mate."
"Dunno mate?"
"Dunno"
"Would you care to venture a guess? Today? Hmm? Tomorrow maybe?"
"Dunno mate."
Jesus Christ! Was this guy on day release from a school for the socially inept? He was all the use of a chocolate fireguard and couldn't tell me when the great iPhone drought of 2010 would end. The last time I remember a drought like this was in the early nineties but something tells me that checking down the back of the sofa and in the pockets of old jeans and going round to see "suppliers" in squats isn't really going to help.
So I left, obviously.
I tried another couple of stores but they all had nothing but Keith types with nothing to offer but sarcasm and sage advice like, "should've got it last week mate."
I ran into the bike stealing kid again, pushed him off it. Little bollocks. And as I happened to pass the Romanian chap killing a cat or whatever he was doing with that fiddle/trumpet contraption I stooped down and took my pound back again. Fuck this, if I'm having a shit day so should everybody else.
And when I got home I wept. And then got angry again. And then wept some more.
All avenues to the successful purchase of an iPhone4 have been denied to me, be they online or via phone.
So I am without a shiny new iPhone and life is a little darker because of that...
...and if The Cousin gets one before me I'll probably go bersek.
******UPDATE (for those who care)******
My Apple shaped circle is complete again...phew.
O2 store in Castlecourt, what a great bunch of lads.
I know the feeling…. Not available in Ireland for Weeks !!!
we should form a facebook group and make demands until we embarrass ourselves…or just wait…
I was vaguely tempted by one until I saw a fella in work (mid-late 50s) playing with his in front of the wife and letting a plate of black pudding and scallops go cold. He was wearing a pink Ralph Lauren shirt, had his cashmere sweater tied over his shoulders had a leathery tan and had a gold identity bracelet. The next day I ordered a blackberry. They had lost all joy for me.
I’m just gonna pretend this didn’t happen….
Reading this on my new iPhone 4
if it makes you feel any better, your’s is the first blog this phone has seen.
gimme it….!
Oh yeah, he got one and you didn’t. That must smart.
fuck hugh….
Did you try all the Apple stores? Keith seems as unwelcome as a fart in a spacesuit by the way you tell it. But, I suppose he should have helped a bit more. I mean, you’re bound to be able to order it in or something.
The Cousin sounds like someone who would buy that just to see ye moan about it. Ah, family…
he is exactly that sort of person…
My “Keith” in the O2 shop in Castle Court was in his late 20s with full make up on.
how eh….nice?
There’s nothing like a thwarted purchase.
I charged over to the local bookshop to get a copy of Richard Burton’s letters to La Liz last month after reading reviews. They told me it won’t be here until the end of July.
Grrr.
Instant gratification must be met!
yes, yes it must! well put
dunno what to say..just dunno..
words aren’t needed, prayers are…
i’m still using a steel grey razr from t-mobile, sugar. feel better? xooxox
[faints]
Iphones schmiphones. I feel obliged to post spannery taunts such as Androoooid FTW! Objective C is for lUsers! Install linux on your toothbrush! or something.
there, that’s better
ha! super nerd!
As I said before, Boyfriend works in phones. If you like I can ask him to let me know when they are back in and I can text you?
cheers Rabbity….but I too now have contacts in the cellular communications world…things are happening…say nothing [taps nose]
Cellular Communications eh? I think I’ll have to steal that for him so he has a new career title
Received mine in the post earlier this week: Vodafone on pre-order (only took 3 days to arrive).
I can confirm that it is a little bundle of shiny loveliness.
Good luck in finding one. And no. You can’t have my precious.
sake…..
Whats your hurry – there will be an even newer version out before you know it. Don’t be a slave to “Marketing”
Probably not a bad thing. You’d be better waiting until they bring out the levitating ones that don’t cut you off when you swap hands.
I am still using the i580 from Nextel. I do not like phones (land or cell) but the boss wants to be able to call so they provide it and are happy I do not want a fancier one. It will even text when Nextel’s network is in the mood to work properly.
And the i580 is EXTREMELY durable!!!
My current phone is the Sony Ericsson T610
It still works even considering I’ve lost count the number of times gravity has taken it for a trip. If it makes you feel any better two years ago I dropped a lump hammer on it.
yeaaa!! there is peace and harmony again in the world.
is awesome eh….so happy
“We don’t have none.”
Wouldn’t that mean that he had… some? Grammatically? He DOESN’T have NONE. No? No?
I’ve had too much sugar today.
I scrolled fastererer and fastererer til I reached the joyous conclusion. Thank fuck I didn’t read this when you originally posted. There’d've been bricks shat.
I am clapping for your success, patience and lot of wondering around does pay off.
As they say, a waiter and his tips are easily parted. Just show them shiny things.
So is the new iphone any good? Was it worth the wait? Any chance of a bit of a review! Cant decide between iphone or android!
Grrrrr. I got my new iPhone two months ago. No choice after dropping it for the 200th time. Unfortunately this time it fell face down into a little collection of stones. Frickin’ 10 months to wait now on the iPhone 4
Did you kick the stones? Stupid breaky bastards. They attacked my phone yesterday as well. Very Grrrrrr!
I just can’t put it down. It feels so good.
Just entered the i world having purchased an iPod last week (I break/lose things that are nice and expensive so try not to buy them) no iPhone yet but tempted however…
Souhnds like Keith wasn’t quite this informed…