Booths tucked away in corners with no windows anywhere

The broom-closet syndrome: They forgot to include the booths in the original design, or they decided they needed more.

Booths a little over 1 square meter with two chairs crammed inside

The booth was originally intended for one interpreter, but . . .

Bar stools for the interpreters to sit on

The table is the height of a bar counter, but no other bar amenities are available.

Booths strung out one alongside another with no passageway behind

You have to walk through each booth to get to the next one down the line.

Booths hanging from the ceiling at the back of a 2000-seat hall, reached by a narrow spiral staircase

High-power binoculars required to see what's happening in the hall.

Read the slides? No way!

One SI unit for 2 interpreters

Occasionally equipped with only one set of headphones as well.

A mobile booth placed inside the technician's booth

They were short one booth and couldn't think of a better place to put the extra mobile booth they brought in.

Booths used as storage rooms

Everything but the kitchen sink stuffed in there! Sometimes they clean it out for you and other times you just crawl over it.

A table behind the projection window, up on a narrow platform, with barely enough room for the interpreters' chairs

They said they had a booth and this is what you found when you arrived. Don't push your chair too far when you want to get up. And don't lean back!

Booths hidden away behind a mirror-wall in a splendid 18th-century palace; access through a door in the mirror (front wall of the booth); working table with console and 2 mikes attached to the door. Seating arrangement: 2 interpreters sitting one behind the other.

Maybe the builder was thinking of motorcycle riders.

One booth for 5 languages; working table at the back wall. The working areas for the 5 languages separated by wooden panels 75 cm high attached to the table.

The designer was an expert in telephone booths.