Pet Peeve #54: The USB Drive on the Dell Dimension 8200

USB Dell
Originally uploaded by littledevilworks.

An open letter to the Scuzbucket who designed the USB Drive on the Front of the Dell Dimension 8200:

I have a bigass computer tower under my desk. You know, where you're supposed to keep bigass computer towers. It's a trusty black Dell and I like it just fine. It ain't never done me wrong.

EXCEPT. FOR. THE. USB. DRIVE.

I want to personally find you and shoot you between the eyeballs. Being the fine upstanding chumpbucket that you are, you put a handy USB drive on the front of the tower. Except you must have been asleep at the wheel because this drive slot is at a 45 degree angle, facing DOWNWARDS, at the bottom of the tower.

You know what this means? I'm going to tell you.

For the average USB use, this means I am on the floor, feeling for the USB plug, trying vainly to insert the USB drive when I CANNOT SEE A DAMN THING. This happens MULTIPLE TIMES A DAY.

Thank you for making me a dusty sneezy mess. I hope you don't mind when I curse and shake my fist at you 3 times a day. It's only bad karma and voodoo vibes I'm sending your way.

-the trusty little devil