Thought of the Day

[mikephillips]

When signing your name, it doesn't have to be readable, just distinctive. I recall a test in Reader's Digest years ago where you had to guess which signature went with which famous person. I got Eisenhower and Khrushchev backwards. I have a tenant who's signature looks nothing like his name or anything else. When I was on active duty I has to sign watch logs so often, my signature lost a lot of detail.

In high school one of the "shop" classes I took was drafting. There block letters are used, and I never went back. When I had my first civilian job after the Navy, our reports were typed by a secretary from our hand written text. She commented to me that mine was the only writing she could easily read.

True. If I hadn't seen him holding it up I would never guess Trump's signature as him. But I've seen stuff "signed" by young folk where it isn't the same from signature to signature, which could be a problem for verification. I think learning cursive is as much about learning to do the same thing the same way across different papers so that you can look at checks or legal documents and be able to say the same person yes or no because of the resemblance across them all. My signature isn't 100% the same but the distinctive things like the capitol M, L and P are close enough to the same and the lower case match fairly closely too.