Bad Design: Speaker Case (Joel Parish)

I was given a pair of Sennheiser PX-100 "collapsible" headphones a long time ago. I'm thrilled with them, they have great sound and fantastic bass feedback, but the carrying case they come with is one of the most obdurate contraptions I have ever used. It took me a full 5 minutes to figure out how to put and keep my headphones in the case I had just taken them out of. 

It turns out that it is a 6-step process to put the headphones into their case. It has no obvious affordances of which direction to place the headphone in, nor, that one must rotate both headphone arms 45 degrees to insert into the headset, nor that the spindle around the edge of the case is meant for wrapping the cable. The closing bar-cover only rotates one direction, but is confusing as to which, and is extremely difficult to open without fear of breaking the device.