iPhone Contest Loser

Posted on | March 7, 2009 | Comments Off

So I didn’t win the iPhone contest. I came in a very strong second, in fact, I was only one point away from tying with the winner. But on the last day of the contest, neither of us were able to make any progress – and he set a record amount of calls. I conceded at about 3:30 as I had a meeting to get to and nobody wants to talk to a salesperson after 4 on a Friday.

However, since the contest Boss Lady has been in a very good mood. She shook the winner’s hand and gave me a hug on the day after the contest ended. For the past week I have been in a fog, trying to remind myself that at least I didn’t come in last (you don’t want to know what happened to that guy). But then by Friday it sunk in: I had lost the iPhone Contest.

So I’m looking for other iPhone contests I can win. Of course, most of them require either giving them my mail address, which will cause junk mail (I HATE junk mail) or they expired back in 2007. The other option for winning is Ebay, where I can either get one that unlocked ($$$$$) or one with water damage (ummm, no thanks.) Perhaps I should get one that’s unlocked, and then when my iphone-using coworkers jadedly comment on the horrific service offered by AT&T in Chicago I can call them and say “I can hear YOU just fine, thanks.”

But since funds are a little low at the moment (I just put a security deposit down on a new place) I fear I will just have to wait until September when my contract runs out. DEAR GOD, I’m going to be the last person in the WORLD to get an iPhone.