What went wrong?

A very good bad design example I face EVERY DAY is my flash disc.

I have 2 or 3 flash discs. The trouble-maker is the oldest one I bought several years ago. Back to the time when flash discs are still expensive in the market, my friend gave this 256MB flash disc as a present. I was so excited to have a cute one like that. It has a fancy shape with a round end, and in the center of the round end, there is a flash light to show you it's working when you plug it in your computer. Well, this is where the problem is.

Most of the hi-tech products, like video camera, digital camera, palm, microphone, my mouse are required to use the USB ports. My laptop has 4 USB 2.0 Ports. But because of the fancy shape, I can only use 2 of them when using this flash disc. The shell of it is either too thick to plug another product in under or above it, or too wide to use another port on its left or right. I have to unplug other 2 ports next to it to use it, leaving only the mouse plugged. Or if sometimes I need one more thing to use the port, like if I'm printing something or on a video conference, I have to unplug my mouse as well to use that flash disc. That annoys me a lot!

So, finally, I retired it before I got mad, and bought another 4GB flash disc. It's nothing fancy, just the regular shape, and slim. Since it's a gift from my best friend, I'm not gonna throw it or give it to other people, I just save it in one of my drawer and have the big-butt beauty sleep for a looooong time.