Your signature getting ugly...?

[Nevada Ed]

Had shoulder problems and went to the VA for x-rays and ERI's.
after 45 days and no went to an outside doctor for strength test and some x-rays.

Found out that 33 year of punking rebar as an Ironworker finally did both my shoulders in. Got a shot of cortisone and
the x-rays showed a "Hot neck" which will get a ERI in three days.

The Doctor told me that a bad neck can cause your hand writing to go down hill and look like a four year olds.

Just a heads up........
Carry on.

 

[blues7]

I wish mine was as good as a four year old's. On the other hand, I feel sorry for anyone trying to copy my signature.

(I think mine is mostly poor from lack of practice, (I don't write many checks), and lack of caring.)

 

[rjm6120]

Hope things get better for you, Ed!! Yes, at just a tick shy of 50 years old, my signature is absolutely horrendous. I drug screen an average of 30 clients a day, 5 days a week and my signature has to go on all of the result pages and, well, I am pretty much "over" writing my signature!

 

[DeathGrip]

Everyone said I should have been a doctor writing prescriptions.

Now if I wrote one you'd probably die.

 

[Oldiron]

And I just thought it was the arthritis in my thumb and fingers. Larry

 

[coltle6920]

I once had a supervisor bring me in to put my initials on a paper that had to do with some new policies for my job.After I did so he said that he couldn't recognize my writing.I politely told him that it was his problem and not mine because I had just completed a mortgage application and the bank didn't have a problem.

 

[shouldazagged]

My hands are gnarled with arthritis and I have carpal tunnel syndrome in my left (writing) hand. My signature has gone straight to hell. Never looks quite the same twice.

 

[Cyrano]

At the age of five, I was switched from writing left handed to writing handed. Since then nobody has been able to read a thing I've written; including myself sometimes especially when the thing has gone cold a few days. I had to learn to type in self defense. Now my typing skills are going down the tubes, I'm in big trouble

 

[Oldiron]

Cyrano, I have had many instances of cold hand writing. Mostly in the four years of night classes at UAB. Sometimes I would have to scratch my head and try to figure out what the class note said. And that was back when my writing wasn't as bad as now. I'm too old to worry about it but if I went back to college now I would be in a heap of trouble. Larry

 

[SW MP15]

I never had good hand writing. My 5th grade teacher in 1965 said my hand writing looked like a chicken with cerebral palsy.

And now I have early Parkinson's and my hand writing hasn't improved!

I guess I can learn to sign with a X?

 

[Fishslayer]

I have Chemo Induced Neuropathy... Yup. But my signature was never any John Hancock even on my best days.

Filling out a 4473 tomorrow...

 

[steveno]

after shooting 100 rounds of 45 acp at the range my hand writing goes from bad to worse. I also worked putting books into a perfect binder for 7 years didn't help things either

 

[bgrafsr]

At the age of five, I was switched from writing left handed to writing handed. Since then nobody has been able to read a thing I've written; including myself sometimes especially when the thing has gone cold a few days. I had to learn to type in self defense. Now my typing skills are going down the tubes, I'm in big trouble

Did you go to a Catholic school? I'm left handed and when in grade school the nuns attempted to make me write right handed. Mom went to the school, gave them "holy hell", and they never tried to get me to write right handed again.

 

[crazyphil]

When I go to write a check in a retail establishment I have to be
a contortionist to write my signature on their electronic pad. That does
not help the looks (or legibility) of my signature.

 

[steelslaver]

When I go to write a check in a retail establishment I have to be
a contortionist to write my signature on their electronic pad. That does
not help the looks (or legibility) of my signature.

Those electronic pads for signatures are a joke. I have written all kind of things on them other than my signature and it always gets accepted.

 

[raljr1]

Sister Saul used to crack me across the knuckles with a ruler because my 4th grade penmanship was so bad...when I asked her how she expected me to write nicely when she kept hitting me on my writing hand, she started slapping me across the face...

 

[H Richard]

After 40 years in management, constantly taking notes on whatever and signing documents, my handwriting was terrible. Since I have retired my handwriting is markedly improved and actually nice looking. (My wife asks me to address envelopes for her to make sure they get where they are supposed to).

 

[Fishslayer]

Those electronic pads for signatures are a joke. I have written all kind of things on them other than my signature and it always gets accepted.

I've often wondered just how bad it would have to be to get rejected.

 

[soFlaNative]

I also worked putting books into a perfect binder for 7 years didn't help things either

I saw what you did there
Signatures...A large sheet printed with four or a multiple of four pages that when folded becomes a section of the book.

 

[snubbyfan]

Back in the early 80's I ran the Duty Free Warehouse at Dulles Airport. Everyday I had to do mounds of paperwork for US Customs.
My signature degenerated to what was basically a squiggle. That squiggle was approved by US Customs as my official signature.