the iPhone, revisited

Sunday, August 05, 2007

If you're a reader of my blog, you'll recall my flaming iPhone rant from earlier this summer. You know, the one in which I ripped the phone apart, piece by piece. That made me *real* popular in my house. Ha!

But, unbeknownst to J, I had a Top Secret Plan. A plan that would net him his very own iPhone. You see, since the moment these were first announced, I had it in mind to get one for my beloved J. He's such a techno-geek and being a Mac freak on top of it, how could I not? Things would have been just hunky dory if I'd told him he was getting one, but I decided to make it more fun and put the old ball and chain foot down with an emphatic "NO!" That would make the getting of the iPhone that much more fun.

So here was poor J. Feeling forlorn and down. No iPhone for him. Such a nasty, horrid wife I am! Ok, he didn't say that (cuz I would have kicked his tail if he had!), but I'm sure he was pretty close to thinking it. Especially when I went and purchased a new cell phone for myself. Hahaha. Oh, the look on his face. It was shortly thereafter when I posted the now infamous (at least in our home) iPhone Rant and from that moment on, he was in a bad place.

You can thererefore imagine his surprise when 2 weeks later, I pulled up to pick him up from the local coffee shop and in order to sit down, he had to move the AT&T bag that was sitting on his seat. There was utter shock on his face - I don't think he knew what to say. Or think!

I got him the larger model and wow, it's super sweet! It took J a good week before he got over the shock and was able to come to grips with the fact that he actually owned an iPhone!

You're probably thinking I'm a whacked out nutter. I was SO against the phone in my rant, right? Here's the thing - he kept going on about it being released soon and I was going insane. This was a HUGE secret to keep and I was having trouble keeping my trap shut. I knew the *only* way I'd be able to hold out until it was time to get it was to make such a stink, he'd not talk about it anymore. Thus, the iPhone Rant was born.

And that is my tale. I'm sticking to it. J has the world's coolest phone and if they ever allow unlimited calling with other providers, I'm totally ditching my Verizon phone and getting my own iPhone!