Crank Calling From the Apple Store
Posted by junger | March 3rd, 2008
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On Sunday, Debbie and I had a little bit of time to kill at the mall, so we headed over to the Apple store to take a look at the iPhone, which we are considering getting her for her birthday this month.
(Hopefully, the event planned for Thursday will shine some light on whether we should wait to get her iPhone 2.0).
One thing about the iPhones in the Apple store — they are all live. They all have phone numbers and can make calls and send text messages.
So I was only sort of surprised when the phone I was checking out started ringing.
Like any inquisitive journalist, I picked up the phone and said "Hello."
On the other end was a rugged voice. "Who dis be?"
"Umm … you're calling an Apple store. In the mall. On a display iPhone."
"What?"
"You're calling the Apple store. In the mall."
"Huh?"
The conversation didn't go much longer than that, but either this guy was randomly drunk dialing phone numbers, or someone had used the phone to call him.
So I checked out the SMS log, and someone had text messaged him a couple of minutes beforehand. Hah! Gotta love it.
After we hung up, a text message arrived from the same phone number.
"Who the hellz is this."
(No question mark necessary.)
I was going to reply … again … but the store was closing and they shooed us out.
Honestly, I'm just upset I missed the chance to ask him if his refrigerator was running.
