Is your signature and handwriting clear or illegible?

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Rose65

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I've often been fascinated by signatures, how so many are utterly indecipherable and so creative. Of course that makes them hard to forge too. Mine is quite clear.
As for my handwriting it is reasonably clear unless I scrawl a quick note which my husband often cannot fathom out. Some people's writing really is totally illegible. I love seeing beautiful writing but I think that art could well be lost eventually.
 

I was a nurse on a psych unit. I spent hours charting patients' behavior. About this time, my back began to be a problem with lots of pain. One of my co-workers told me that my writing had changed, and yup, it got a lot less readable. And as my pain got worse, my handwriting got worse. My signature long ago was fluid and readable, now it's jerky and hard to read. I can't really sign my name like I used to.
 
I recently had a argument with a bank teller about how I sign my name on documents. My legal first given name is James, but most of the time I sign as Jim B******. She insisted this was not acceptable. I showed her my bank client card with my full name on it, with James as my first name.

She still refused to accept that I can be either Jim or James, as I please. Her argument was not that my signature was not "readable " but it was based on her not understanding that in the English speaking world, people can be Bob or Robert, or Ed or Edward. Did I mention the teller was a recent arrival from India? The manager quickly settled the situation, to my satisfaction.
 
jimintoronto said:
I recently had a argument with a bank teller about how I sign my name on documents. My legal first given name is James, but most of the time I sign as Jim B******. She insisted this was not acceptable. I showed her my bank client card with my full name on it, with James as my first name.

She still refused to accept that I can be either Jim or James, as I please. Her argument was not that my signature was not "readable " but it was based on her not understanding that in the English speaking world, people can be Bob or Robert, or Ed or Edward. Did I mention the teller was a recent arrival from India? The manager quickly settled the situation, to my satisfaction.
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Lucky you!
US Immigration gave me a middle name. My maidenname when spoken is a serious insult in US English.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I was a nurse on a psych unit. I spent hours charting patients' behavior. About this time, my back began to be a problem with lots of pain. One of my co-workers told me that my writing had changed, and yup, it got a lot less readable. And as my pain got worse, my handwriting got worse. My signature long ago was fluid and readable, now it's jerky and hard to read. I can't really sign my name like I used to.
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I understand this.
On a similar note, I read somewhere that a sign of impending Parkinson's disease is that a person's handwriting becomes tiny. I find that quite curious.
 
My handwriting has never been pretty but always legible, at least to me. When I got into a position where I had to sign my name a lot, my signature became illegible. I started journaling a few years back and I've tried to improve. It's not bad if I take my time, but I lack the fine muscle control to do it really well.

Have to ever looked at handwriting samples of famous people? A lot of it is really bad. Mark Twain's was a scrawl and Queen Elizabeth's was nothing to brag about.
 
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