Because
it occurs to me that I don't really have a signature anymore. I
mean, what do I even sign for anymore?
I
sign for packages which, given that I'm almost always signing for
someone else's, isn't proof of identity so much as proof of
existence. I've signed for packages for people I don't know even by
virtue of being the nearest neighbour around at the time. I haven't
signed a debit slip or a cheque in a decade or more.
Hell,
even when I'm at the bank and they need me to sign a little piece of
paper with my signature I see it in their eyes, the silent “fuck
it” when it fails to match the signature in their records (which I
gave them when I was thirteen). Never mind that by this point they've
seen two of three forms of legal ID already.
And
this is coming from someone who, just about, grew up in an age when
you needed a signature to pay for things. A few years younger than me
and I imagine a signature, as in an actually repeatable way of
writing your own name,is probably not something most people have ever
had a reason to develop.
Even
working in catering, a job with an enormous amount of legal
paperwork, no one has ever questioned the fact I have approximately
seventeen different ways of writing my own name and even then most of
the paperwork just needs initialing.
(This
post was brought to you by painkillers.)
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