Younger generation cannot sign their name!

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All of my great-grand children can write their name and most anything else (well Hoss is still a little young). My granddaughter in Virginia is a certified teacher and started them reading and writing early. My grandson and his wife also started teaching their two girls very early.
 
Like I've said before: The USA- a first world country has SEVENTY PERCENT functional illiteracy rate. They can read, but are low on comprehension and retention. Spelling and vocabulary have gone down the tubes as well. Thanks to constant internet use, they also have the attention span of a gnat. You won't find them reading a book. I was once told that "Books are for prisoners.".
What you described is a Third World Country. Maybe we aren't quite there yet, but we are heading there fast.
 
They can't drive stick either.
For whatever reason my 62 year old sister insists she won't drive an automatic. I think it has to do with Grandpa's insistence that automatics use to much gasoline.

Whatever...

Regardless, she has had trouble in recent years when she needed a new car. You have to look far and wide to find a stick.
 
Yep, in thinking about this more there is something going on...
I get checks written to my business all the time... here are three on the way to the bank... look at the signatures....


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Under a certain threshold amount some banks don't check signatures. The loss potential is much less than the salaries of three or four full timers checking signatures.
 
Digital Age. I can do my signature, have to for many reasons. Biggie came when a business I deal with only takes checks in a world that doesn't. Been a long time since writing a check! Wording the amount, cursive, took me 2 checks to get it right! 🤣
 
I own my own small business. I get calls from customers daily. If our conversation results in a job,, I write out a work order. IN CURSIVE. I'm writing stuff as I speak with the customer.
If I don't have a work order,, AND a written description of what is needed,, I can & will forget stuff. By having it written down,, as I'm preparing my daily work,, I load my truck with the things necessary to handle that day's jobs.

Now,, that said,, I also took 3 years of schooling in architecture. There, you block print words. AND they HAD to be a certain size & way so that everybody could read them.
So I can also print in block letters when necessary.

Teach the younger generation as much "old school" methods, manners, responsibilities, & whatever else you can to assure it doesn't get lost. (Talk to just one person at a time on the phone & do not interrupt one call to take another. Leave my phone in my truck while I'm at my customers house. Set an appointment time & arrive within 5-10 minutes of that scheduled time,, NOT a 4-8 hour window.) I tell my customers how I'm "old school" and only take checks or cash,, no plastic or electronic payments. MANY of the things I do to help my customers is quite often very well received & appreciated.

It must work,, as I haven't had to advertise in about 15 years now.
 
My initials are BDP

My signature is a capital B followed by squiggle, capital D, capital P followed by squiggle.

Its illegible but totally the same each time.

Never had an issue
My signature is the same JDR is J/line, D/line, R/line.
I retired from the corporate world where I signed my name so many times a day it just became the first letter of each name followed by a not so straight line. Same with my daily notes....only I could read them.
 
They can't drive stick either.
My vehicles are all manual. I am irked that new pick up trucks are all automatic now. One of the reasons I kept my 1999 Ford F-250. I also have a 1942 Chevrolet 1 1/2 ton truck with a 4 speed and NO synchromesh. That takes skill to downshift at speed. Speed being a relative notion. 45 MPH is about it for the highway.

Kids today do not know what they are missing.
 
Ever since signing my enlistment contract my signature has been on par with most doctors. A stylized T, a stylized J, and stylized H and scribbles in the middle. Monday night I was helping my daughter buy a new car, she is 19 and this is the first car she bought herself, so the first time she has signed a contract. Chip off the old block, stylized first and last initial with scribbles for the rest. When I asked her about it, she said "I had to sign for so many packages at my last job that it morphed. Now I get why yours looks like it does."
 
Most documents do not require a signature on paper any more. A lot of mortgage title companies and nearly all car dealers are electronic. I have never been arrested or sued so maybe courts require a signature. I am not advocating the elimination of certain traditions, I am merely explaining why things change.

Manual transmissions? Most people don't know how to hand crank a model T or adjust its timing by the lever while driving either. I used to think driving a manual transmission equipped vehicle should be a part of the test. Texas doesn't even make kids parallel park any more during the test and I see 2-3 manual transmission vehicles per year working in a dealership service department. They are extinct for the most part which is sad. As a porter in the early '90's, a solid 20-25% of vehicles brought in were manual.
 
"My kids can write cursive but why? When will they use it ... besides signing their name on ... what?"

Many legal documents require a written signature. And one place other cursive writing should be used is when writing a check.

Yes,, yes,, I know,, not as many people write personal checks anymore. But if we keep using checks, which makes banks continue using them, we can, in a small way, prevent total transference of a paperless money system. I still use checks to handle a lot of my financial transactions.
I like to think of it as a way to keep another one of my freedoms,, and hopefully prevent a complete removal of a hard currency type of system.
Contender, as you know, I do not accept credit cards or debit cards in my business. Cash is still KING! In Western NC, with the aftermath of the hurricane, the power was out, the internet was out, in certain parts of the counties, gasoline could still be had to fuel generators, transportation, and chain saws, if one had CASH to pay. Groceries could be obtained if CASH was available. My wife and I were without water (due to the water department facility being flooded by the French Broad River), but we got along in relative comfort. I have friends who were without power for weeks, that means no water for weeks because they were on wells. A month later, in WNC there are still people without power, many, many, people are without homes, they were washed away by the floods of what were once babbling brooks and streams which became raging torrents. Rich and poor alike were affected.
 
Yep,, Sam & I both use just cash & checks. We get along just fine.

As he's mentioned,, with the recent disaster,, of which is STILL a VERY, very, very long way from recovery,, cash was king. And if the local business knew you,, a check was accepted.

Being able to write a check, or sign your name is still a very important part of daily life if you live in a more rural area. Maybe bigger businesses do things differently,, and get confused when you require a "paper copy" with real signatures or whatever. But not always the best thing.
 
Yesterday, at a very up-scale grocery store (Whole Foods), they had pods at each check-out for "Pay with your Palm".
This is for real...... !!!
I'm guessing this is for the SLOW KIDS....... (like me who got into italics on this computer and doesn't know how to get out).

J.
 
Yesterday, at a very up-scale grocery store (Whole Foods), they had pods at each check-out for "Pay with your Palm".
This is for real...... !!!
I'm guessing this is for the SLOW KIDS....... (like me who got into italics on this computer and doesn't know how to get out).

J.
Yeah, I ve seen it too. Scary stuff. Where is it going?
 
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