Apple Products (And What People Do For Them)

At the moment, I'm totally sitting in a laundromat doing laundry. Next door is a Subway, from which I'm filching my internet access. :D

I was going to start out by saying that life has been fairly uneventful for the last couple of weeks, but then I realized just how untrue that is. It isn't uneventful; I've just kinda been too lazy to write anything! So, a quick catch-up, then.

The other night, I was sitting outside the Apple store at the Kansas City Plaza. The Plaza is this really cool downtown area that kinda reminds me of "Historic Downtown Branson," in it's own quaint little way. Anyway, the temperature was probably thirty degrees, and I was sitting there at about 1:30 in the morning. Why was I sitting there at 1:30 in the morning, you ask? Well, that's a pretty good question, and it has a pretty good answer. The iPad2 has recently been released, and while I hold no personal need for Apple products (probably because I've never owned one; I'm told when you buy one Apple product, though, you become addicted to the company, so it must be good), somebody pretty close to me absolutely needed one, and I, being the kind, generous person that I am, decided it would be fun to go freeze with him.

Freeze, we did. It was so cold. I had on a pair of jeans, two shirts, a jacket and a coat, and I was still cold. There was this wind that just wouldn't die. Skyler was wearing pajama bottoms under his jeans, two shirts and a pretty heavy jacket (definitely not a coat) and I don't understand how he didn't become a Skyler-cicle, because he's always colder than me.

Until about 3:30, there was only one other person there. He was this sleepy old Chinese guy who was propped up in the corner, sitting on a large black bag. Every so often, you'd hear a sigh and he would stir a little in his sleep. The sigh, unfortunately, was always followed by what can only be politely described as a case of very bad flatulence. :/ Ew. At 3:30, a bouncer from one of the local bars arrived with a Red Bull, which I kinda stared at with the desire that the Chinese man would have used to stare at a bottle of Beano.

More people finally started showing up around 6, after we had already been there for four and a half hours. The store opened at 8 (two hours early, thankfully), and they had only SIX iPads. Six. But Skyler and I were in second place, which made it totally okay. So he got his iPad (which I played with, and yes, it was really cool, and probably worth waiting for six and a half hours in the freezing cold for), and I got a sore throat and a case of the sniffles and fifteen minutes of sleep before work. But it's okay, because it was fun, if not a bit irresponsible. :D