similar experience at tmobile store.

"I need a tmobile sim so i can play on your 3g network"

"OK, what phone would you like"

"I already have it"

"Where did you buy it?"

"Doesnt matter, just give me a sim on no contract"(yes I am mean and ornery with salespeople)

"Is it a smartphone?"

"It is a nokia n900"

"We don't sell any phones like that, it is not in my computer"

<three person + manager huddle commences for 10 minutes>




Eventually did get a SIM, but definitely felt like a square peg in round hole land