My iPhone Story [or, "Why it doesn't compare to shoes"]

I waited in line a total of 9 1/2 hours for the iPhone. Crazy. Three different days. It seemed like it shouldn't have taken 6 1/2 hours (the third day) for being the ~40th person in line. Regardless, I got it. It's sweet.

It's an iPod, video player, facebook reader, handheld game machine, calendar, and contact organizer. Oh, and did I say it's a phone??

And then I heard this on the radio. Ron Hunter, head coach for IUPUI's men's basketball team, was attempting to get 40,000 pairs of shoes donated to Samaritan's Feet to give to needy people who don't have shoes. He ended up raising over 250,000 pairs. Then he took some of his players to Peru to hand out the shoes to these needy people.

And these needy kids waited in line ALL DAY for a pair of shoes. And there weren't nearly enough. And the kids who didn't get shoes were crying, banging on the bus, just pleading for shoes. There just weren't nearly enough (obviously they couldn't take too many on that one trip). Quite a compelling story.

So I wait a 9 hours for an electronic device. They waited 9 hours for shoes. Puts things into perspective.