There is a crack in everything
In my senior year of highschool I experienced the near total breakdown of my signature. I owe it to the fact that I was applying to colleges. Up until that point all I ever had to sign was math homework and birthday cards, nothing as imposing as a loan application. Aside from the weighty matter of the documents, the sheer volume of dotted lines was overwhelming.
I think it sarted when I found myself unable to decide when in the sequence of signing I was supposed to cross the "t" in Peter. After the r or before the second e? This sudden feeling of amnesia made me anxious which caused my hand to spazz.
What I didn't realize was that my understanding of what a signature was was changing. A signature is ones mark. It need only be partially legible, if at all. The important thing is that it be yours.
The "eter" of Peter was just a mess of tangled loops at the end. I remember feeling real panic about it. Of course, once I gave up on my signature ever being readable again, it became beautiful.
posted by Peter @ 8:00 PM
3 Comments:
Wow, I can totally relate to this post. Just when I got my signature down to a science, I decided to change my name when I got married. The first time I had to sign my new name i was like a grade schooler writing a perfect, loopy G-O-L-D-S-T-E-I-N. It lacked distinction, character. I felt awful about it. I STILL don't have it down four years later.
Your signature is kickass. Love the heart thingee on the bottom.
Lisa
Hey, that's the signature I've been using. One of us is going to have some 'splaining to do.
Actually folks, I have to confess, that signature isn't mine. I lifted it from google.
Dale, you have wonderfully elegant handwritin and some scoundrel out there is stealing it!
Lisa, is the "o-l-d" portion the hardest? It's those consecutive loops that screw evertyhing up. I hope your husband is understanding.
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