Wayward Keys

This keyboard has keys that charge their tiny springs as you press them. At a moment when you least expect it, probably when you need a break, the keys start shooting up and away like popping corn from an open pot. Each key has a peg on five of its sides, poking out randomly, causing them to squirm and carom like playful puppies.

Suddenly your desk is jumble of scrambling letters, V pushing R, and 8 making like a Mexican jumping bean over ? and X. Unsuccessful at stopping the alphabetic discharge, you retrieve M from your cuff, save Delete from the threatening wheel of your chair and, as if solving a puzzle, reassemble your keyboard.