Operation AT & T and Postcards

Well, how long would you think it would take to get some credit on your phone or find a postcard, maybe a walk down the road?? We arrived in DC on Monday afternoon and it is now Thursday. We have made numerous amounts of trips to the Giant supermarket and you think they have phone cards or postcards, no of course not!!! We went to Adams Morgan and you think I could find anything, no! Beca found a couple of postcards but I didn't like them much as they weren't touristy enough for me. So I gave up on that really quickly! When we went back to Giant I decided to ask them if they carried phone cards and they said try CVS just down the road, so off I go to CVS.
We arrived at CVS drowned in sweat and Beca found credit for her phone but there was nothing that resembles my carrier. "Do you have any AT & T phone cards as there is none out" I ask, "Sorry we don't stock them" the lady said. So, off we go again looking for somewhere else that would remotely look like they'd stock phone cards. I said to Beca "7eleven should have them". We walk inside and there is heaps of Hispanic people everywhere pushing and shoving, and I finally make it to the counter and I ask one worker for a phone card and he then told me to see the other guy at the other counter, all I want is a phone card!!!! So, again, I line up and ask for the same thing, finally he said they only have cingular, but isn't cingular and AT & T the same?! Well yep it is. Eventually I get my credit Thursday arvo, but still no postcards!