Yesterday I set about a great journey, a journey to get my cracked iPhone screen fixed. So like any good Apple user, I logged into my iCloud account all set to make an appointment with an apple genius at one of the three nearby Apple Stores. And much to my distress, I saw that the only Apple Store with appointments available on a busy Friday afternoon, was of course the Apple Store right in the heart of Downtown Portland. So I gave myself a pre-traffic pep talk and got in my car and spent the 45 minutes to drive 15 miles and found a brilliant parking spot and headed into the store. Everything was going swimmingly, I was flirting lightly with my new Genius friend, and then he dropped a bomb on me. "It's going to take 2-3 hours to fix your phone today." Dude. I thought we were friends. Now, this is about a fifteen minute job, so I was expecting to be in and out in an hour. But now I was facing a reality...I was about to be trapped. Downtown. With no cell phone. Alone. For ...