Your first real signature?

[Amethyst]

From a Mom who was taught by nuns in Ireland, I learned to write beautiful cursive; and still can, if the occasion merits.

I have three signatures. There's the rapid fire one: my initials, neat, connected by a hasty (but not messy) squiggle representing a lot of small letters and two swooping lower loops.

The second is a precise cursive rendering of my name - for important documents. This is basically the same as I would have signed when I was eight, although of course it was a different name back then.

The third one is indecipherable, for when I'm forced to use my index finger on a small touchscreen. I mean, you could sign "Batman" on one of those things and nobody will question it.

 

[Stormy Kromer]

My draft card.

 

[JoeWras]

Last night during a meeting, I tried to take notes in cursive.

I failed.

I couldn't form a good "b". My signature doesn't have a "b."

I better not change my name.

 

[prudent_one]

For sure it was my SS card.

I had a co-worker who could only able to use cursive in her signature. Everything else was printed in block capital letters.

 

[Gumby]

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I had a co-worker who could only able to use cursive in her signature. Everything else was printed in block capital letters.

Engineer?

 

[steelyman]

The Declaration of Independence. Large enough so that the King could read it.

It’s gone downhill (legibility) ever since.

 

[Walt34]

The third one is indecipherable, for when I'm forced to use my index finger on a small touchscreen. I mean, you could sign "Batman" on one of those things and nobody will question it.

I actually did that once as an experiment, and signed "Snoopy". It was rather sloppy though. And of course, the package was for a radio control model biplane, although not a Sopwith Camel.

 

[statsman]

SS card when I was 12. I was told I needed to get one when I won a share of stock on an AM radio station contest at that time. So, I acquired a SS card. Afterward, I was told I still couldn't sign for the share of stock because I wasn't 18. My dad ended up signing for it, and not many years after my parents divorced when I was 14, he and I stopped seeing each other. I have no idea where that share of stock went.

 

[CindyBlue]

I think it was my work permit. Might have been a library card, though...

 

[Koolau]

My Social Security Card. Still have it. Looks exactly like an 11 year old's signature.

Bingo! Mine too. Still have it somewhere, though I've gotten a replacement with my current scrawl on it.

 

[BruinBones]

My Social Security Card. Still have it. Looks exactly like an 11 year old's signature.

Same. I also remember opening my first savings account at the local credit union around that time.