Reader Ron writes:
Folks waiting in line for an iPhone 3G at the Legacy Village Apple store near Cleveland, OH are being told by Legacy Village (the complex, not the Apple store) that they can’t wait in line on the sidewalk – even the sidewalk that doesn’t have storefronts on it. This is made worse by the fact that today is an unusually sunny day in Cleveland and the sidewalk is the only place where there is any shade!
It’s currently 82 degrees and sunny sunny sunny in beautiful Cleveland. Pack water and a parasol.
(Photo: TheeErin)
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They have to wait outside in 82 degree weather and we’re complaining about it? What kind of wuss place is this turning into? Its currently a HUNDRED degrees outside where I live. Bring a parasol and water? Please.
@muledoggie: I was wondering if it was some kind of stock photo of people waiting in line too.
On the other hand, it does look like stereotypical Apple fanboy/girl attire and if you the longest time you spend outside is walking to or from your car and the rest is spent indoors, wearing a sweatshirt probably isn’t that uncomfortably warm.
@crabbyman6: Have you ever actually been to Cleveland? (Probably not…you shouldn’t, anyhow). I just moved to this place, and there is two truths I have quickly found out about the weather:
1) It’s cold here. And raining. ALL THE TIME. It’s July and it will regularly be in the 50s. So Clevelanders are unused to the heat.
2) 82 degrees is the hottest 82 degrees in the entire world here. I live 1 mile from Lake Erie, so oh the humidity. I’m in Phoenix a lot for my boyfriend, and 115 in Phoenix feels so much better than 82 degrees with 90% humidity in Cleveland.
@Pipes: perhaps you missed the part where I said it was RAINING. 100% humidity. 84 degrees now and raining.
@Pipes:
It hasn’t been in the 50′s here since June 19.
[www.weather.com]
It has been a rainy, rainy year. A little rain every day. It’s better than the alternative. Without the humidity holds through the night and so does the temp.
Wait till August.
It’s probably that they were worried about some kind of either Police stopping by and ticketing people for “Stopping the flow of Traffic” (An excuse officers give during large protests to keep them off sidewalks so pedestrian traffic isn’t slowed by the protesters taking up the sidewalks) or if it was in a certain placement, it could have been seen as a violation of fire code, and they were just protecting themselves from a fine by the city Fire Marshall or something.
My friend currently waiting in line at an Apple store in L.A. [probably at the Grove] said employees were handing out bottled water and ice cream to people. Now that’s how you keep a customer.
Not just sweatshirts, but delicious, refreshing, warm coffee too! No wonder that lady looks like she could rip an elephant in half, hulk-style.
@madog:
doughnuts and glaceau at mine in irvine.
didn’t get my iphone, though… customer service NIGHTMARE.
I just waited in line in Dallas for 4 hours. 102 and not a could in the sky.
I would have bought someone an iPhone to be in Cleveland for it.
Hey, the Dude abides!
@rochec:
Couldn’t agree more rohec! Similar situation in Austin 100s, no shade, but at least the stores in the area started giving out free stuff to be good neighbors – water, starbucks, sweet leaf tea, red bull… But 82? ahahah…. Its 100 degrees in the shade… I’d pay for a spot in cleveland… 82… lol.
nobody is forcing anyone to stay to buy something.
No sympathy
@Secret Agent Man: i’d move to St Petersburg, Florida
Not surprised, this is the snootiest shopping center in Cleveland.
@the_cleve:
Um no, there’s a verizon and a sprint @ Legacy Village
[www.legacy-village.com]
[www.wireless.att.com]
Closest AT&T is 2.79 miles
And to the people who can’t stand in beautiful 82 degree sunshine, I wish it had rained on you all.
@Franklin Comes Alive!: Umm… Cleveland’s Flats has been all but dead since 2000. And NO, THE WAREHOUSE DISTRICT WILL NEVER BE THE FLATS!!! (Sorry… I just find it funny when people mistaken that yuppie POS to what Cleveland used to have prior to the Fatcat Jimmy Dimora/Queen Jane Campbell/Crackhead Frank Jackson days. I still find them to be the political cancers to Cleveland.
@mikel1981: I don’t find Legacy Village to be THE snootiest of the shopping centers of the Greater Cleveland area. (It is up there though, for a midwestern shopping center.) Sure, they are certainly the girliest of them, but their Willo Rent-a-cops (And prior to that, Tenable Rent-a-cops) sure make sure that the place were anything but posh.
Arguably Crocker Park (nicknamed “Cracker Park”, by the locals) is more posh, though smaller, and Beachwood Place, which is across the street from Legacy Village, is more exclusive to the area. Steve’s Electric Fruit Stand does not make Legacy Village any more exclusive.
@Ray308win: The funny thing about the rent-a-cop instructions is that the sidewalks a enlarged in the Legacy Village area, and that the Lyndhurst/Beachwood PD doesn’t typically mind the overflow of pedestrians that occur in this particular shopping center (In fact, I’ll go on a limb to say that sometimes, it seems encouraged.) It wouldn’t have been a mobscene, since the line was arguably nothing like the 5th street ave (NYC) line. Maybe the GTA4 or MGS4 lines, maybe? Perhaps the Dreamcast line back in 1999?
There just wasnt a significant threat posed, except maybe someone spilling their latte or smoothie on another’s camp chair.
And lastly, for those who never knew a Cleveland Summer: I’ll trade a 82 degree Cleveland Summer for a 105 degree San Antonio one. Cleveland is one of the most humid places I have been to by far!
Boo-hoo, it’s 117Ëš here in Arizona.