I grew up on a little island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean where the only places to shop were Contempo Casual, 5-7-9, JCPenny, and Liberty House (now Macy’s). Access to everything is quite limited, which has always frustrated me – Aside from the perfect weather, good food, beautiful beaches, gorgeous people, and overall easy-going attitude, I don’t know how my parents can live there.

In Manhattan you can get pretty much anything. We seem to have absolute access to everything and after living here for over 4 years, I’m rather used to the conveniences of New York. We have dinosaurs, waterfalls, hotdogs on every street corner, over 150 Starbucks locations, sushi at 1am, etc. We also have 3 Apple stores and a zillion AT&T locations…which is why I’m so annoyed at this whole iPhone mess.

I still do not have an iPhone - but I did wait outside of the AT&T store on 17^th and 6^th between 2:33pm and 2:41pm today, in a short line of crazy people just waiting, and hoping, and praying for the next delivery of iPhones. Each time a FedEx truck drove by, people stood up and got excited. I sat down and decided join the craziness for a little bit…before deciding to get a Jamba Juice and go shopping instead.

During my very short-lived stint in line for not-even-there iPhones I saw:

• At least 6 girls in gladiator sandals
• The Stella McCartney spring floral jumpsuit (really. on a real girl.)
• A bunch of Seth Rogen lookalikes and a girl who was clearly thrilled to be surrounded by them

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Tags: AT&T, gladiator, iphone, Seth Rogen, Stella McCartney

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