“Excuse me?”
I’m walking along Carlton Street, iPhone in hand, looking for free WiFi (oooo! Days Inn has a big access point!), when someone approaches me.
“Are you American?”
“Huh? No,” I say.
“Is it…” he starts, meaning the iPhone, “What’s it like?”
“Perfect.” And I smile wide.
He smiles too. Like we just shared our love of Jesus. We talk a few moments and I let him play with some buttons. “I need to get me one of those. February I guess.”
“Or December, or 2008, or never. Rogers hasn’t really said.”
His smile fades a bit.
#1 by salvage on July 27, 2007 - 8:12 am
Really, really, really hating you.
This is so unfair, I’m a million times more an early adopter / goddamned fool than you and I don’t have one.
More oppression of the white heterosexual male right there.
#2 by Dead Robot on July 27, 2007 - 8:25 am
Bill O’Reilly reported yesterday that there’s a band of gays with iPhones (Worksafe – it’s flickr!) downloading porn from open WiFi ports.
Would you like a pamphlet?
#3 by Busdriver on July 27, 2007 - 8:37 am
Gee, I guess str8 porn is somehow banned by iPhones?
#4 by Gabriel... on July 27, 2007 - 1:34 pm
God wants us to watch str8 porn. It’s in the Bible, right after “hate thy neighbour”. I can’t believe you’re just wandering the iStreets cavalierly waving it around… I hope you understand that what you’re doing is like juggling three glass bottles of rubbing alcohol at an AA meeting.
#5 by Dead Robot on July 27, 2007 - 1:47 pm
Pretentious? Moi?
I have to wave the damn thing around. I can’t talk loudly on the phone part yet.
But it is kind of cool to see the names of people’s routers. Stuff like:
Stargirl
Wiggly
Sheamus
and the lazy: dlink
#6 by SharkBoy on July 27, 2007 - 4:44 pm
Hey DR?
Why don’t you give me a call from you new iPhone?… oh right, that part is not working…
#7 by Busdriver on July 28, 2007 - 2:36 am
A phone that don’t work.
How cool is that?
Maybe you should tie a string on one end and another iPhone on the other…
hehehehehe
#8 by Normlr on July 30, 2007 - 8:06 am
Can I touch it?
#9 by Dead Robot on July 30, 2007 - 8:25 am
you dirty girl!