Checking back in at the Verizon around noon the lines were gone. But it is a big store and the place was plenty crowded. I was only there for a few minutes and I didn’t see anyone leaving with a newly purchased Storm. Heck, I didn’t even see a Storm. All I saw was patient people, this didn’t look like it was going with the pay -n- go fun of the original iPhone offering or even with the speed of the pay and f#$%#@^ in store activation of the iPhone 3G. Except for the fact that it was all hands on deck instead of one or two Verizon folks on the floor it looked a lot like any other day in a Verizon store.

Gene, however, was miffed. I met Gene leaving the Verizon store while he was on the way in. Or was going to go in. Gene hadn’t heard of the Storm, didn’t care about it and just wanted his semi ancient cell phone fixed, That didn’t look like it was going to happen on this day. Gene thought about his options and decided to use his lunch hour for lunch instead of what would have been a vain attempt at cell phone support. It’s a good day for Verizon and RIM but a bad day for Gene.