Sign, sign, sign - what's the point in requiring your signature so much?

[dale blanker]

C'mon, all of us like to "sport complain".

Here's one of my latest: People who shout rather than speak at room temperature volume.

Yes, especially when they are talking on their cell phone that's right by their face, not across the room. This is especially annoying when someone nearby is doing it at the gym when I'm trying to hear my mp3 player. Uug.

[E10]

I've workers doing stuff for me now just outside my house.... Every one of them shout rather than speak.

They all have noise-induced hearing loss from using power tools 'n' such without hearing protection.

[Abraham]

E10,

I assumed the same.

I'd bet they've no clue either, unless maybe their wives and children ask them to pipe down and they look on in bewilderment...totally clueless.

[CrimsonSoul]

It's a conspiracy with ball point pen manufacturer's they are paying kickbacks and the politicians are in on it. Throw em off next time and just sign with an X then if you want to go incognito draw a circle around it.

I use a Fountain pen, so does that mean I'm safe (Yes I really do use one, writes superb. Best pen I've ever had. EVER and it was only 30 bucks)?

[WildBill]

It's a conspiracy with ball point pen manufacturer's they are paying kickbacks and the politicians are in on it. Throw em off next time and just sign with an X then if you want to go incognito draw a circle around it.

I use a Fountain pen, so does that mean I'm safe (Yes I really do use one, writes superb. Best pen I've ever had. EVER and it was only 30 bucks)?

Fountain pens don't work too well signing the led screens at the checkout counters.

[JALLEN]

It very likely has to do with the rise in dishonesty, forgeries, claims that the cardholder/check writer never bought that, etc.

Many think that baseball is the national pastime, but it is actually cheating, far more popular than baseball and basketball put together. It is astonishing the lengths people will go to to cheat these days. They lie about where they live so their kids can go to a different school, they ignore diamond lanes because their time is so much more valuable than anyone else's, they cut corners just about anywhere they can gain even a trivial advantage.

Look at all the expensive, time consuming measures businesses and governments employ to avoid cheating, stealing, embezzlement, manipulations, and still people plot and scheme to try.

Several decades ago, a lawyer at a major financial institution told me there are two kinds of people, dumb ones who will lose it and smart ones who will steal it. Thanks to Beavis, Butthead and Slick Willie, that human defect of character has grown more prominent, it seems to me.

I'm convinced the Internal Revenue Code would have been done away with long ago but for the opportunity to fiddle. If they can't cheat, they're miserable.

[bmwrdr]

Open the local phone book and you'll see there are more lawyers than carpenters, painters, electricians, ... There is a large quantity of edjucated law professionals. Remember how it was in the past and conclude.

[Abraham]

dale blanker,

I just came back to this thread to notice your most recent post.

I agree.

Signing 'whatever' is mostly pro forma and a constant minor pain in the posterior and an outdated method, if the improbable, but possible, forging of documents with one's name on them were to happen though...

I'm sure one of these days something superior to signing one's name will come along once we're worm dirt.

As I mentioned earlier, I often just sign with an X when I use my CC, which I've been doing now at HEB for at least ten years without anyone ever calling me to task about it.

One reason I do this is my hands are arthritic early in the day and I just can't sign my name. I have to draw it if it's something important that requires my signature. As in buying a house, etc...otherwise an X will do.