bad design

While waiting in a rather ponderous line, I couldn't help but notice the people at the end of the line had fairly fancy-looking and presumably expensive computer workstations featuring floating keyboards.... which most of them had propped up with a small cardboard box. 


Yeah, technology. Bitch. https://youtu.be/io-t-bUkfY8

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