Could you sign here please?

Man... I have GOT to get a proper signature.

It's a pain in the ass when each time somebody asks me to sign a document, all I can give them is a crappy half-signed half-doodled signature that a 5 year-old could do better than me. And lately, having stepped out into the working environment.... I've been having to see it more and more often.

I bet you've been to the bank, and when you wanna withdraw some funds, they ask for your signature? In my case, I have a different signature.... at every bank........ why?? Because each time I opened a bank account, I can't remember what kind of signature I used in the previous bank, much less be able to sign a replica of it.... so I just invent a new one on the spot.

No two signatures of mine are the same.... and everytime I withdraw money over the cashier from the bank, I get this double-take looking back at me to check see if I'm the same person as the photo on my ID card. Sigh.... I seriously need a proper signature.

Do you realize how some people's signature look so cool and elegant that even when you just look at their signature you'll go "This man has gotta be SOMETHING....", which in most cases, he is.

Like this.

Okay, maybe this one is a bit girly... with the 'love' and all, since it's Avril Lavigne's.... and she isn't a 'he' but yea... it's a good signature. I mean... it looks cool, and... yea, that's the whole point of it.

Then on the totally opposite side of the scale, we have the "What is this scribbling???" signatures.... which look something like this:

Would you just LOOK~! Who... I mean... who the hell's signature couldn't it have been??? For all I know it could be someone testing whether their pen still had some ink left in it; Or maybe someone decided "I am NEVER signing this document!!" and scribbled something for the sake of foiling the paper... but people mistook it as his signature and 'Tada~'....

You know, I once had this pastor... he's gone now... Not GONE gone... but, I mean... gone elsewhere... Japan maybe... I forgot. And he had the most curious signature ever....

Among the few times I went to church.... years ago.... which weren't even a handful of times... We'd get these 'leaflets' or 'bulletins' about the happenings around us and so-on, signed.... by the pastor. And EACH time I got the bulletin, I brought it home.... to compare the signature ~.~"

His signature was nothing like what I've ever seen. It looked like random scribbles, doodles, markings, whatever you can call a bunch of random nonsensical pencil/pen strokes scattered all over the place. A little bit of dots here.... a triangle there.... some zig-zags near the bottom.... then zig-zags again in the upper left... then maybe a circle in the middle of the zig-zags... an x in the corner... it was the most peculiar thing ever.... 

Unfortunately I lost the bulletins and can't show them to you today.... And I don't go to church anymore so.... yea...

I remember the first thought that came to mind when I first saw it was "This is a SIGNATURE!??"

Then again, back to myself.... I think I should spend some time practicing a good signature one of these days.

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