Never … iPhone with Carly!?

This is sort of like a never travel with Carly story! I had two phones. A Verizon Blackberry because my kids had BB and they wanted me to have the BBM ability (instant messaging btw BB users) and I really preferred keys to the keyboard screens, and Verizon b/c it's the best cell service in my area. As a special thing for myself I had the AT&T iPhone because … well DUH! it's an iPhone! But since it was AT&T it was unreliable as a phone in my area. Over the last two months, my entire immediate family went to the Verizon iPhone, leaving my lone BB in the dust. Leaving me paying 2 phone bills for no reason now.

So.

Saturday night after dinner, after I Googled store hours and it said Verizon was open till ten PM, the girls and I headed out. We pulled up to the store at 9:20 to watch the lights flicker out as we watched from the car. So we decided to try the other Verizon clear across town. The girls weren't ready to go home anyway and once I decide I want something, I want it now. So we get there and the store looks closed. I'm aggravated. I say, let's go across the street to Petco. We need puppy toys. Drive over there only to discover … you got it. CLOSED. So we pull out and start home, passing Verizon again on the left and I say, LOOK! People out front. My daughter groans and drives back into the parking lot only to discover (as they already told me and we saw the first time) CLOSED!

The next morning, I decide to hit the mall and Apple. I walk in around 11:20, the store is a zoo, one of the Apple guys talks my ear off for twenty minutes even though I know what I want and could have been in and out. We reach the point where he says and what is your account's last four security numbers. I tell him. And he types it in and says – oh this is a business account. I should have asked you that from the beginning. Verizon locks us out of the business end. You have to go to Verizon. Takes me another ten minutes to leave – he's trying to explain other things as I keep saying, I'll come back. I'm crunched for time (I was!). I run clear across the mall to Verizon and say, I want to buy an iPhone. I'm out of breath. I'm annoyed. And they say "well before you start, we're out of the 16 Gig. You have to go to one of our main stores (i.e. the ones I drove all over to last night). NO!!!!!! The HELL you say!

I drive home, pick up my daughter, drive back to same area to meet a friend for lunch. Then daughter and I go to Verizon (first store we were at the night before) – and in 15 minutes, I had my white 16 Gig iPhone in my hand. No more BB with emails that won't come through for ages. No more two accounts. I have my iPhone, my apps, MY LIFE back.

And the first thing I think of when it's all over? I HAVE THURSDAY'S BLOG.



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