Are you comfortable with your signature?

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I'm not. Mine varies too much. It looks markedly different from one month to the next. I worry somebody is going to say "this isn't your card."

I can't wait to get married so I can start afresh....

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

The post office refused a paper I had signed saying it didn't resemble my signature. hahahahahahaha Sort of goes to show how much it differs from one day to the next.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

mine is always the same sloppy mess

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Made mine a stupid easy couple of squiggles in the first place to avoid this. I like it!

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

My signature has looked the same ever since I was 13 and has no style whatsoever. I need to take time out and workshop it at some point because I'm going nowhere with it on my own.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:30 (nineteen years ago)

i'm fine with mine

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:36 (nineteen years ago)

its my regular handwriting that embarrasses me

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:37 (nineteen years ago)

This is mine, it doesn't change much, but it's very very boring.

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/sig.jpg

― I'm down for runnin' up on them crackers in the city hall... (papa november), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

reminds me of a katydid

― latebloomer and his 'Cyborg Companion', Hacker (latebloomer), Friday, 10 November 2006 08:46 (nineteen years ago)

Mine's fine. It took me a while after I got married to perfect it, but it's an easier name to write quickly now - my maiden name ended in "ss" which is a bastard to scrawl neatly.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been able to master the squiggle. I think they look good.

I faked my dads signature for years on school letters, having never met the guy or seen his signature.

― Rumpsy Pumpsy (Rumpie), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:14 (nineteen years ago)

(a couple of times, when single and operating under the difficult-to-scribble name, I had my debit card refused. Hurrah for chip and pin!)

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:16 (nineteen years ago)

its my regular handwriting that embarrasses me

regular? mine's... well, extremely... CRAP. there's nothing regular about it. :-(

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:35 (nineteen years ago)

My signature is an elaborate squiggle. People don't believe me when I say it doesn't alter at all, but it really doesn't, even random ant-crawling-across-paper is exactly the same.

― Hi There! Dear Johnney B (stigoftdump), Friday, 10 November 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm stuck with my name in all caps for a signature. takes 5x as long as a normal sig. when i sign debit card receipts, clerk is always like wtf r u doin? big stacks of paper really blow.

― if you ain't got the yolk, you can't emulsify the hollandaise (fauxhemian), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:05 (nineteen years ago)

My maiden name signature was lovely. I put a lot of thought into designing it when I got my first bank account as a teenager - it was a neat and stylish signature which flowed really easily, but my married surname is longer and I sort of run out enthusiasm by the time I get to the end of it, and often accidentally miss a letter out of it too. Things aren't helped by the fact that my writing is quite big and round so my signature doesn't ever fit properly on the credit card strips either. Gah.

― C J (C J), Friday, 10 November 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

I quite like both my signatures - I still sign my maiden name for anything work/writing related - although my married signature is a bit shorter and easier to do.

I accidentally signed my maiden name on a credit card slip a while ago and the cashier was all, 'oh never mind, that's fine' which surprised me a bit. Surely you can't accept payments signed with an entirely different name to what's on the card?? Although I suppose if I was a fraudster I'd have to be a pretty stupid one.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:45 (nineteen years ago)

when wee Tracer was 16 he CHANGED HIS NAME (well, actually just started going by his first name rather than his middle one) a decision that came with the concomitant luxury of revamping the sig.. he twirled with pen and paper for many days and finally settled on a good one that he uses to this day

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

My signature is as tall as it is wide, which makes it a right nuisance for signature strips.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Someone once told me that as soon as a card is reported as stolen, it shows up as being dodgy as soon as it's swiped through the till or card-reader but if it's not shown as stolen, then a lot of stores aren't bothered about the signatures not matching. A policeman mate of mine used to work on a city-centre beat and, rather childishly, he used to sign "Mickey Mouse" on his credit card slips for a joke all the time because he said that if a card is valid, you can get away with signing any name (admittedly he only did this in stores where the security staff knew him though, so I do not really recommend trying this)

― C J (C J), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

I like mine. It's really just a mass of vertical lines, but I'm happy.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 10 November 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

I just push my paws on an inkpad.

― teh_kit returns! (g-kit), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:00 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking as an exretail worker I gave up checking any of them like a month after I started anyway so don't fret it anyone

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Do kittens have credit cards, then?

Maybe with Barclaws Bank.

― C J (C J), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kitibank, perhaps?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 10 November 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

I like mine, I practised during secondary school, many, many times. Isn't this what everyone does? It goes big flourish for R then little barely visible undulating waves which are the-onan, then it has a huge F, a heartbeat for -it, a g with a huge squiggly flourish under it, then barely legible -era and a huge spikey -ld at the end.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

It's not as poncey as my description of it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

My signature lacks flair and it's too late to change it :-(

― wordy rappaport (EstieButtez1), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

change it so it actually says 'esteban buttez' and you're set

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

If I remember well, it actually doesn't come up as "dodgy" but as STOLEN CARD. Which happened one time in our shop. As we knew the client, we knew it couldn't have been stolen. We called the CC company and they said:"Cut it in two!" hahaha We didn't of course.

I always make a point to ask for an ID card if someone hasn't signed the card on the back. This happens a lot with Americans. We aren't allowed to *not* sign the card here, a bank clerk (who gives the card) will make you sign the card. But it's not really that important anymore as we mainly use pin codes nowadays.

Oh yeah, why do some people here talk about two signatures? If you're married, you changed it?

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

i love mine! big curling flourishes on the A, M and N; the ponciness of this is counterbalanced by every other letter being united in this mass of spider squiggle.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

it sometimes goes wrong when i'm hungover or not concentrating but all cashiers have accepted it

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

it is surprisingly difficult to concentrate while signing your name i find, it should be easy but too often i have not paid attention only to find that i wrote something completely different and have had to start again.

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, why do some people here talk about two signatures? If you're married, you changed it?

Yes, I changed my signature along with my name when I got married. The way I sign "Ailsa" stayed the same, but I had a whole new surname hence different signature.

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

btw, is this thread really a thinly-veiled attempt by Rumpie to announce her engagement?

― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I completely changed mine a few years ago when I was getting a new bank account, quit writing "William" all the way out and now it's "Wm C-squiggle-P".

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Friday, 10 November 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Tracer, you have an original name??????

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

what was it? and did it lead to children at school calling you "ratface"?

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

i don't ever think about my signature, it's so rare I sign anything.

― Sam rides the beat like a bicycle (Molly Jones), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

signing customs forms in triplicate on an almost daily basis has seriously streamlined my signature, but it remains largely legible!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I love my signature!
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― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I like mine! I have a great name, so I can't go wrong really.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mine is incomprehenisble, which I prefer.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I never mastered cursive, so I've always just scribbled my name. The thing I hate is when you have to sign it on screen (like when you get a ID card or Driver's license) with a computer pen. My sig isn't that great, but if looked at one I did that way (like on my state or college ID card), you'd think I was retarded or had three fingers or something.

― The Dusty Baker Selection (Charles McCain), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

my original signature was ten types of ugly. about a year ago i ripped off some of the forms used by bill moyers:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/moyersonamerica/images/home_bottom_06.gif

― rems (x Jeremy), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

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