[incongruity]

Sometimes "unboxing" is just about getting something out of the box.

Sometimes we take it all too seriously and forget, as another poster said, that our norms are not everyone else's norms. Thus, "all those passive people" might well have had their experience ruined not by being deprived of some unboxing experience, but by having to wait while every person ahead of them opens their box to make sure the phone's there, working/can be activated, etc.

It's too bad that the poster's experience wasn't what they wanted it to be, but really, seriously, don't make it a bigger issue than it really is and don't assume everyone else has the same issue, even given the same treatment.

[captaincrunch]

My point was, if he didn't like something they did, he should have used his voice. I personally don't care if I open a box, in fact, it would be less work for someone to setup the phone for me.