Why would Photoshop select the text character horizontal scale slider by default?

This happens on my work computer, haven't noticed it at home, but...

Why would Photoshop automatically select the text character window text horizontal sacle % contol every time it opens a file?

It's a very strange behavior and wastes a lot fo time when the default tool that's selected is the mouse/move tool.  

Yet I have to click around until Photoshop catches up with my moves so I can do simple tasks like scale, and move things on screen.  

Can someone at Adobe explain why this is happening and how to prevent it going forward?  Or does someone need to reprogram something for the next update?  If yes to the last question, please do that.