I worked as a relay operator that summer -- AT&T had a TTY terminal and a billing terminal and me in between; I'd get phone calls from someone with a TTY/TDD (typically a person "hard of hearing") and a person without the TTY/TDD device (such as a school chum or a pizza place or relative). It was my job to relay what I heard or read to the other party. I then would have to enter the session into the AT&T billing system. Oh, and obviously I had a phone setup as well; interestingly there was no automated dialing system I had to just read the number from one interface and dial into another. I think to this day I can touch type a phone number pad with only my right and and a "regular" number pad only with my left.

These two devices had different home key setups (one with nubs, one with deep indentations) -- they had different number pad setups (one was "normal 10key" the other was setup like a telephone number pad) , and obviously my job was to be a super fast but accurate typist.

So when I got to school and was confronted by yet another cursed keyboard I snapped and "fixed" them. I would like to think everyone in the lab except the rich kid with a IIci in his dorm who was just using the laser printer to print his fanfics appreciated it.

Your logic is sound; I'm not going to disagree on principals but my fingers would get really agitated when trying to use those things.