You Don't Wanna Watch The System

A client sat at Jack's desk while Jack opened a new account. Jack took a long time to type in the client's information, slowly and deliberately poking down the keys in the keyboard. Click. Click. Clack. Finally, Jack leaned back and clasped his hands behind his head. "This is the part where we wait for the system," Jack confided to the client, proceeding to stare in silence at his computer monitor as if watching a mildly engrossing silent film. The client, in turn, stared at Jack and wondered what the hell was going on. Computers, the client knew, did not work that way, and the client wondered for a moment if the computer had even been turned on.