I got up at 5.00am this morning, thinking that I would take the first bus at 5.47am to the city. At the end, because I dilly-dallied and because I needed some coffee to wake me up, I ended up taking the bus at 6.21am. When I arrived in the city, there were about ten people queuing outside the Optus shop at Rundle Mall (the eastern end). The first in line apparently set up camp at 8.30pm last night, and there was also a guy who had been there since midnight (unfortunately he didn’t pre-register so he had to wait until the rest of the pre-registered customers were served!).
Optus already informed those who pre-registered, that their shop would be open two hours in advance (7.00am). Waiting until 7.00am was easy because we were pretty pumped up to get our second generation iPhones 3G – there was a sense of camaraderie as well as fellow queuers chatted and compared notes on whether we were going to take pre-paid or post-paid contract. As mentioned previously, the first in the queue came at 8.30pm the previous day – there was a guy who brought his chair and had been waiting since midnight. There was also an engineer who worked in the mining industry in Central Queensland who had been driving all the way to Adelaide and thought he might as well join the queue. He was on his way home anyway. Talking about dedication! There was also some kind of entertainment from a local radio station – a 20-something guy in platform shoes, feather boa and face all made-up came and tried to muster more excitement from the queuers. We were not the excitable bunch, so he gave up and walked to the Vodafone shop instead. Haha.
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