Amid Three-Hour Gas And Bus Lines, A Three-Hour Line For iPad Minis In Manhattan

Reality is strange in its contrasts.

Consider: To buy an Apple iPad Mini at the company's flagship store today, you had to be in line by 6:45 AM and wait there until 10 AM – a more than 3 hour wait. And yet lots of people are doing it. Our reporter on the scene says the line stretches from the front door, and around the block.

It looks like this:

Meanwhile, mere blocks away, people are waiting hours to refill their cars with gas and this is what bus lines look like as people try to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan for their jobs:



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