Posted on June 29, 2007 at 8:06 PM in experiments
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By around 5:00 pm, with the AT&T store doors shuttered, and everyone waiting expectantly in line, people started to notice that the entire shopping center we were in had lost power. After lots of murmuring in the crowd, the rumor was that a nearby car had struck a light pole and knocked out power around us. After several nervous visits from AT&T store employees out to the line, the store manager came out and informed us that Georgia Power was working on the problem, and they expected it to be fixed at 7 pm. He was very apologetic and appreciative of the time we'd all been waiting. And we all hunkered down to wait again.
Looking back at my Twitters, it was around 5:51 when power magically came back in the shopping center, and people's spirits were again buoyed. Ken and I were around the 5th and 6th people in the store to pick up an iPhone, and the first two out with the goods.
As we came out, the second remarkable thing happened. Everyone exhorted Ken to open the bag with his iPhone in it and show off the package, but shortly after that, three people in line asked me what that thing was I had in my hand. As I showed it off to them, they oohed and aahed at the dual-slide action and asked me for all of the details. On a day when we'd all waited, some since 8:30 am for an iPhone, and at the moment just before purchase, they were still wowed by my Helio Ocean:
