Go and update your DL with your legal signature. Call the mortgage company and thank them for the free house that some joker signed with cat heads.
Most mortgages specifically have a rider that says they can make you do more paperwork as needed
Not if you cross your fingers and say “no take-backsies”
Is this how people turn into sovcits /s
that’s what the notary was for
“How do I type this alphanumerically?”
“Meow meow meow.”
I used to do data integration work for Chipotle. One day, our Workday (HR system) integration broke out of the blue and we spent hours troubleshooting.
Eventually we discovered someone named Katherine applied for a position and signed her name with a 🐱 emoji, which broke EVERYTHING.
Not quite the same thing, but years ago I was a developer working on an app for Clerks of Court in the one state that doesn’t share the same legal basis as the other 49 states (should make it easy to guess which state). One day I got assigned a bug ticket that said the “State” dropdown in the app had 519 entries. This was of course a few too many, so I took a look at the STATES table in the database, which as expected contained the two-letter abbreviations for all 50 states but then a whole bunch of other shit after than, including all the states fully spelled out and often misspelled many times as well (there were more than 20 different spellings of Louisiana, for example), and then a bunch of country names.
It turned out that one of my coworkers had been assigned the task of including the state’s standard marriage license form in the application. This form had sections labeled “State” for the bride and groom, but since the victims (or whatever people getting married are called legally) were often from out of state or even from other countries, clerks would just write in whatever in this part of the form. My coworker was a fanatic about normalized databases, so rather than just allowing these fields to be plain text, he foreign-keyed them into the pre-existing STATES table and added code that added new entries to this table whenever users typed something new into the fields. It never once occurred to him that this table might have been utilized in other parts of the app.
How this table grew to 519 rows before anyone logged a complaint about it is beyond me.
U+1F431 U+1F431 U+1F431
My agent accidentally misspelled my last name on paperwork at some point and when she realized the mistake it sent her into a blind panic We got it sorted but years later I still get junk mail with that name on it.
More like: Brad discovers the American equivalent of a Hanko, along with all the pain that creates.
I have e-signed most of the paperwork I’ve signed in my life, but I did sign in ink for my first house. For that one, everyone encouraged me to be as casual as possible about my signature because they knew it would inevitably just get sloppier as we progressed through the paperwork.
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How do modern kids even develop a signature? They used to teach cursive and it’s based on that, but cursive isn’t used anymore
Signatures aren’t as important as people think they are. You can sign with literally anything and no one will care. The only time it may come up is if there’s some kind of dispute and then someone asks you “is this your signature” and you say yes. Crisis over.
I mean it just needs to be unique. Otherwise what’s stopping someone else from pretending to be you (if they got control of some other credentials) or weaseling out of something you did in fact sign for.
To quote Mr burns “you can’t all sign with an x”.
Same thing that’s stopping them now. Nothing. That isn’t a very good deterrent for those things
Your signature will never be unique, each time you sign there will be small variations. It’s really not that hard to produce a convincing signature if you have good penmanship, and even easier if it’s a digital scan.
I’ve owned fountain pens since I was little, and I usually use some deep blue ink that fits the “only black or blue ink” criteria but is particular enough that I am able to tell with confidence if it is or not the ink I was using, and forensic analysis could verifiably tell. The one I’ve used the most oxides into copper colors, I love it so much.
For digital documents, I use PGP. I don’t care if it’s dorky, if I think I could have the need to demonstrate that I said or was told something at a specific date, I will generate and store a signed version, or attach it to an email as appropriate. I care more about the cryptographic guarantees of digital signatures than the legal guarantees of paper signatures anyway
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They are if you vote by mail. All ballots have the signature matched to the one on your driver’s license.
More like “is this your signature?”
“Uh, looks like the same ink pen I use, so … Maybe?”
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Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn’t need to be your name.
I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.
Butnintinknwe aware saying the same. Cursive is illegible, so. A bunch of squiggles is good enough. Some people call it cursive.
Note: other than nostalgia, I don’t understand why cursive. Barely legible even by the original writer.
This is amazing!
And so real too.
Mine is my first name in neat Gregg Shorthand, then squiggle squiggle.
