At the Genius Bar
Erica had a problem with her phone. It wouldn’t hold a charge. A Google search indicates it’s a bad battery. YouTube convinced me that changing a battery in an iPhone is more than I am willing to attempt.
I’ve got a guy in Westwood, NJ that fixes mobile phones cheap and guarantees his work, but Erica wanted to go with the Apple Genius Bar.
This would be my first experience with the Genius Bar.
My first impression is that it was packed. There were lots of people in khaki pants moving around and helping people. There was a crowd of people waiting for their shot at a genius. We must have looked overwhelmed because someone walked up to us almost as soon as we had entered and we told him that we had made an appointment online. We were ushered to a special table and five minutes later we were explaining our problem.
We needed a new battery was the immediate verdict, although that’s how I started the conversation. I wanted to know if this was rare, but then I noticed that there was a pre-printed form that had a checkbox for “replace battery”, so I guess it happens all the time.
We signed the forms and gave up the iPhone and had an appointment to come back in a couple of hours.
The new battery cost us about $55. The phone now works well.
At one time I thought about getting a part time job nearby to fill my afternoons. I had looked up Apple Genius and found that it paid about $20 per hour. I felt that that was cheap for a man of my diverse and extensive talents and thought nothing more of it. Now that I’ve seen them in action I am glad that I did not fill out the application. Geniuses don’t seem very smart and the job looks to be very boring. I have more fun working on Amplifiers or typing in short stories.
The title of this entry is “At the Genius Bar”, but now I am thinking that it would make a great title for a short story!